Lisette Ma Neza + Pelumi Adejumo Reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Join us inside Emeka Ogboh’s multisensory installation Elu Na Álà (Sky and Earth) to explore Chinua Achebe’s seminal novel Things Fall Apart - a continuous source of inspiration for Ogboh - with literary trailblazers Pelumi Adejumo & Lisette Ma Neza.

Together, we’ll dive into precolonial Africa, uncover themes of longing, memory, and uprooting, and hear readings from Pelumi & Lisette’s own work. An evening to come together, reflect, and hold space for what once was, and what still can be.

about

Lisette Ma Neza (Netherlands, 1997) is a poet with a camera. Her artistic practice is a constant attempt to translate herself and others. She transmutes the lives and feelings of the displaced, survivors of great violence, of Africans in Europe, of diasporas, of women... This research results in poetic essays, spoken word, film and theatre.

Pelumi Adejumo is a writer, multidisciplinary creator and master of multiple languages. In 2023, she received the Frans Vogel Poetry Prize for her multilingual work and was the translator of the multimedia performance Minor Music at the End of the World (by Saidiya Hartman and Sarah Benson), which premiered earlier this year at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. She also worked as a thesis supervisor at the Sandberg Master Blacker Blackness Studies and is active as a programmer and translator at the international literature festival Read My World.
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