Welcome to the Garden City Literary Festival 2012. This year’s outing is special for several reasons: this is our 5th festival and this year we are looking at a very topical subject, Women in Literature, plus, we are celebrating or beloved city of Port Harcourt’s nomination as UNESCO World Book Capital 2014!
We are also delighted to be launching our book, Nigerian Literature, a Coat of Many Colours during the festival. This coffee table book is a celebration of 50 prominent Nigerian authors and their works. We are grateful that the foreword to this book is written by none other than President Goodluck Jonathan and the introduction by our indefatigable literary connoisseur, Governor Rotimi Amaechi. We hope this work will be an invaluable contribution to Nigeria’s literary heritage, just like this festival.
This year, our theme of Women in Literature is being steered by some amazing guest writers Véronique Tadjo, Doreen Biangana and Chibundu Onuzo. We welcome them warmly to Port Harcourt and look forward to sharing the next few days with them. In addition, we have a brilliant line up of workshop facilitators, discussants in the symposium and seminars, exhibitors at our book fair and of course our visitors.
We welcome everyone to this week of exciting activities that include Meet the Author sessions, drama performances and special events for children. We thank all those who have partnered with us over the years to make this festival possible.
The Garden City Literary Festival is getting bigger and better, and showcasing Port Harcourt’s rich literary credentials!
Welcome and have a great week in our Garden City!
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