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23 March 2005
Start Time: 7.00pm

Kadija Sesay hosts a special event in the African Writer’s Evening series in celebration of International women’s Month Featuring readings and Q&A’s from four African / British women writers from their debut works (details below)

Address: 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2
entry: £4
to book: 020 7420 9888

featured readers
l-r: delia, diana, valerie, kadija photo by C. Hopkinson

First, we get 2 fine, fine Sa Lone titi dem

Valerie Mason John, aka Queenie, Borrowed Body (Serpent’s Tail),
Delia Jarrett Macauley, Moses Citizen and Me (Granta)

Den, we ge fo mek lili space fo we Nigerian sistas dem

Diane Omo Evans, Nigerian/British reading from 26A (Chatto and Windus)
Suzy Kester Nigerian/British reading from Under My Own Colours (Troubador) A ‘New Statesman Book of the Year’, (2003)

This event is now supported by the Arts Council.
Other London SLAM Central events supported by the Arts Council are: Outdooring and Spoken Soul

*SLAM stands for Society, Literature, Art and Music