The Norwegian Council for Africa invite you all to a conversation between author OluTimehin Adegbeye and director of the National Library of Norway, Aslak Sira Myhre. 

Adegbeye and Sira Myhre will have a conversation about literature, activism through literature, gender and equality, and in particular how it is to live and make a life as a young female author in Lagos, Nigeria. 

Adegbeye is an author, feminist and activist. She is a prominent figure among Nigerian and African feminists of her generation, and her writing has been published in a range of different languages. Adegbeye was one of the speakers at TED Lagos in 2017.

Aslak Sira Myhre started as director for the House of Literature in Oslo in 2006. Since 2014 he has been the director of the National Library of Norway. 

TED-talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/olutimehin_adegbeye_who_belongs_in_a_city