Port Harcourt Book Festival panel
Port Harcourt Book Festival panel
Photograph of the panel at a PEN event held during the 2014 edition of Port Harcourt Book Festival (UNESCO World Book Capital 2014) titled What Language Means to Literature: Identity and the Importance of Literary Translation. From left to right are: Tade Ipadeola, president of the Nigerian Centre; Stanley Gazemba; Bibi Bakare-Yusuf; Ken Wiwa (Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr); and Ellah Wakatama Allfrey. The Nigerian Centre participated in the creation of a PEN report titled Culture’s Oxygen, which set out to examine the conditions for minority language creative writing industries in Kenya, Haiti, Serbia and Nigeria.













