Readings, talks,
panels & screenings

Upcoming

• June 20
  2026

  Lagos Studies Association Annual Conference — Author Meets Readers

  Session 13J, 9:15–10:45am · Discussant on Trailing A Seaweed Cord: Contemporary Irish and Nigerian Poets on Wole Soyinka's Ulysses & Notes from Here to My Joyce Class, ed. Aduke Gomez (Bookcraft, 2024) · Register (Zoom) →

  Panel
• July 4–9
  2026

  35th International Publishers' Congress

  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  Talk

2026

• May 12
  2026

  Translating and Publishing World Literature: Editors Roundtable

  World Literature Today · Also on YouTube

  Panel
• April 18
  2026

  Ebrohimie Road — Screening & Q&A

  Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge · New Orleans, Louisiana

  Film
• April 17
  2026

  Translating in a Burning World

  New Orleans Poetry Festival · New Orleans, Louisiana

  Panel
• Feb 18–20
  2026

  Charting New Territory: Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies

  Xplanatorium Herrenhausen, Hanover, Germany · Volkswagen Foundation · Citation →

  Workshop
• Jan 14–18
  2026

  Sharjah Festival of African Literature

  Sharjah, UAE · Coverage →

  Festival

2025

• 2025

  African Literature in Translation After Ngugi — Roundtable

  NY Black and African Literature Festival 2025 (NYBALF) · New York

  Panel
• 2025

  Conversation with Howard French — The Second Emancipation

  NY Black and African Literature Festival 2025 (NYBALF) · New York

  Book Chat
• Aug 7–12
  2025

  Ebrohimie Road — USA Africa International Film Festival

  Cannes Riviera D'Day Edition · Cannes, France

  Film
• May 27
  2025

  New Directions in African Literary Translation

  ALTA Conference · American Literary Translators Association

  Panel
• March 12
  2025

  For Whom the Language Bells Toll: African Languages & Technology

  Barnard College · New York City · Watch on YouTube →

  Talk
• March 11
  2025

  Ebrohimie Road — Screening & Q&A

  Columbia University · New York City

  Film

2024

• May 2024

  Ebrohimie Road — Tuscaloosa Film Festival

  Tuscaloosa, Alabama

  Film
• Nov 5
  2024

  Èṣù at the Library: Yorùbá, AI and Mistranslation

  AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation Symposium · University of Oxford

  Reading
• Oct 31–
  Nov 1, 2024

  Keynote: Timeless Archives, Timely Connections

  British Library · London

  Keynote
• July 20
  2024

  Ebrohimie Road — London Premiere & Q&A

  Africa Centre · London

  Film
• June 29
  2024

  200 Years of Yorùbá Print Culture · Lagos Studies Association Conference

  Lagos, Nigeria

  Panel
• June 18
  2024

  Best Literary Translations 2024 Panel

  Third Place Books · Seattle, Washington

  Panel
• Feb 15–16
  2024

  Symposium on African Digital Humanities

  University of Ghana–Legon · Accra, Ghana

  Conference

2023

• March 17
  2023

  Making Lingua Fracas Work — In Africa, Online, and Elsewhere

  University of Minnesota Twin Cities · Minneapolis

  Talk

2020

• Nov 14
  2020

  Translation Panel

  Lagos Book Festival · Lagos, Nigeria

  Panel
• June 16
  2020

  From Joyce to Ṣóyínká — Bloomsday Panel

  Embassy of Ireland, Nigeria · With Dr. Adrian Paterson (NUI Galway) · Moderated by Àdùkẹ́ Gomez · Report & video →

  Panel

2018

• Sep 2018

  Towards Religious Freedom in Northern Nigeria

  Kaduna Book and Arts Festival (Kabafest) · Kaduna, Nigeria · Moderator

  Panel
• 2018

  Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion

  Museu do Amanhã · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · ITS Rio & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard · aiandinclusion.org →

  Symposium

2016

• 2016

  Premio Ostana Special Prize

  First African recipient · Ostana, Cuneo, Italy · For advocacy in indigenous language rights

  Prize

2019

• 2019

  AI Saturdays Lagos — Language Interview

  Lagos, Nigeria

  Interview

Aké Arts & Book Festival · 2014–2019

• 2019

  Book Chat — with Abi Daré

  Aké Arts & Book Festival · Abeokuta

  Book Chat
• 2019

  Yorùbá: Linguistic Vehicle or Value System

  Panel with Femi Taiwo, Arinpe Adejumo & Feyikemi Niyi-Olayinka · Aké Festival, Abeokuta

  Panel
• 2017

  Book Chat

  With Olumide Popoola and Mohale Mashigo · Aké Festival, Abeokuta

  Book Chat
• 2016

  Book Chat — with Alain Mabanckou and Okey Ndibe

  Aké Festival, Abeokuta

  Book Chat
• 2016

  Exhuming the Author: How the Media Approaches New Writing

  Panel with Oris Aigbokhaevbolo, Anote Ajeluoruo & James Murua · Aké Festival, Abeokuta

  Panel
• 2015

  Guest Interview

  Aké Arts & Book Festival, Abeokuta

  Interview
• Nov 2019

  Book Chat — with Bernardine Evaristo & Nicole Dennis-Benn

  Aké Arts & Book Festival · Lagos, Nigeria

  

  With Nicole Dennis-Benn & Bernardine Evaristo · © Aké Arts & Book Festival

  Book Chat
• 2014

  Modern Africa Poetry

  Panel with Damilola Ajayi, Kei Miller, G. Ebinyo Ogbowei, Bassey Ikpi & Jumoke Verissimo · Aké Festival, Abeokuta

  Panel