Wahala: Nikki May in conversation with Kadija Sesay

Africa Writes is the UK’s leading platform curating the best contemporary African and African diaspora writing. As part of Exeter’s UNESCO City of Literature programme, we’ve been working to establish an Exeter-based edition of the festival. This launched in 2020 with the Africa Writes – Exeter digital book club, and now returns with an exciting literary weekend offering a blended programme of online and in-person events.Africa Writes – Exeter is brought to you by the Royal African Society and Saseni! working in partnership with the University of Exeter,  local independent bookshop Bookbag and Roots Resistance.

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Join Nikki May, author of Wahala, in conversation with Kadija Sesay

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‘Fast-paced, funny, shocking, unputdownable. I loved it.&#x27; Paula Hawkins, author of Girl on the Train, on WahalaWahala has been described as Sex and the City with a killer edge for fans of Big Little Lies and My Sister, The Serial Killer. This gripping novel of friendship and revenge follows the lives of Ronke, Simi and Boo – three mixed-race friends living in London, all with ties to Lagos. Author Nikki May will be in conversation with Kadija Sesay about Wahala, talking about the writing of friendship, food, fashion and family. About the speakersBorn in Bristol and raised in Lagos, Nikki May is Anglo-Nigerian. At twenty, she dropped out of medical school, moved to London, and began a career in advertising, going on to run a successful agency. Her debut novel Wahala was inspired by a long lunch with friends. It was published around the world in January 2022 to rave reviews and is being turned into a major BBC drama. She lives in Dorset with her husband, two standard schnauzers and way too many books.Kadija Sesay is a Sierra Leone/British literary activist. She has (co)edited several anthologies of work by writers of African and Asian descent in poetry, drama and fiction. She has also published her own creative writing in anthologies, such as New Daughters of Africa. She is the series editor for the Inscribe/Peepal Tree fiction and poetry anthologies and they published her poetry collection, Irki (2013). She is co-founder of Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport in Gambia and founder of the AfriPoetTree app. She has received awards and honorary fellowships for her work in the creative arts and a doctorate in Black British Publishing.About the eventAfrica Writes – Exeter is brought to you by the Royal African Society and Saseni! working in partnership with the University of Exeter, local independent bookshop Bookbag and Roots Resistance.Africa Writes – Exeter has been launched through Exeter’s UNESCO City of Literature Programme.#AfricaWritesExeter

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Wahala: Nikki May in conversation with Kadija Sesay

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