IN ABUJA: Two events today, July 4

Cine Thursday at the French Institute

Join movie lovers for the screening of "Tanguy" a comedy by Etienne Chatiliez starring André Dussolier, Sabine Azema and Eric Berger, at the French Institute. Free and open to all!

Also today...

The Abuja chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors will host Remi Raji on July 4 at the Savannah Suites

Top Nigerian writer, Remi Raji, to read in Abuja

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The Abuja chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is hosting one of Nigeria's top writers, REMI RAJI, on Thursday, 4th of July 2013, at the Savannah Suites, Abuja, at 4.30 to 7.30pm. Remi Raji is the current national president of ANA. He teaches literature and creative writing in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Remi Raji is the pen name of Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, author of six volumes of poetry including A Harvest of Laughters (1997), Lovesong for My Wasteland (2005), Gather My Blood Rivers of Song (2009) and Sea of My Mind (2013).

Raji has been visiting professor and poet to Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Universities of California at Riverside and Irvine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Stockholms University, Sweden, Cambridge University, UK, and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. His poetry has been translated into French, German, Catalan, Swedish, Ukrainian, Latvian, Croatian and Hungarian.

Remi Raji has featured in a number of major literary festivals including Poetry Afrika (South Africa), Barcelona Forum, Mahalta Poetry Festival and the Mediterranean Poetry Festival (Spain), Berlin Poetry Festival (Germany), and the Lviv Book Forum (Ukraine) among others.
He was African editor of Drumvoices Revue – Journal of Contemporary Arts and Literature (1999-2010). His latest academic publication is entitled Playful Blasphemies: Postproverbials as Archetypes of Modernity in Yoruba Culture (2012).