2024 Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series in honour of Wole Soyinka @90
Ololade Bamidele
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites you to the sixteenth edition of its annual Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, to celebrate Professor Wole Soyinka, the grand patron of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in literature. Themed ‘The death of truth? Realism, literature and journalism in an age of disinformation’, the event is scheduled for Saturday, 13 July 2024, at Agip Recital Hall, MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos, at 10am. To join online, please click this link; Meeting ID: 820 9988 9402 |Passcode: 927297.
The keynote address will be delivered by Biodun Jeyifo, Professor Emeritus of English, Cornell University, and of Comparative Literature and African and African American Studies, Harvard University. Other speakers include Chidi Odinkalu, Professor of Practice in International Human Rights Law, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Odia Ofeimun, poet, author and political scientist; Kadaria Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer, RadioNow 95.3FM; Chiamaka Okafor, Co-founder, Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Foundation (MILAD); Ohi Alegbe, media practitioner; and Tolulope Adeleru-Balogun, Head of Programmes, News Central TV. Umaru Pate, Professor of Media History and Vice Chancellor, Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State, will chair the occasion.
The event is open to journalists, editors, media owners, the literary community, government representatives, the diplomatic community, civil society representatives, donors, and other stakeholders.
We look forward to your confirmation to attend the event.
Sincerely,
Motunrayo Alaka
Executive Director/CEO
Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism