Popular talk show host, Funmi Iyanda will hold a special edition of her panel series tagged, #HowToFixNigeria at the Africa Utopia Festival on Wednesday, August 31st 2016.
The series, organised by Oya Media in collaboration with the Royal African Society is an initiative that is set to be one of the activities during the Africa Utopia Festival and will hold at The Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London.
Jude Kelly, artistic director at the Southbank Centre and Senegalese singer Baaba Maal are the brains behind the Africa Utopia Festival.
It was launched in 2012 and was the Southbank Centre’s response to the 2012 London Olympics albeit a cultural and artistic one.
The series will focus on gender inequality in Nigeria and will feature a brilliant group of panelists that includes Women’s Rights and Social Development Advocate,Fatimah Kelleher, Technical Adviser, Women’s Protection & Empowerment- Europe, Asia, Caucasus & Middle East (International Rescue Committee), Dorcas Erskine and Nigerian novelist, satirist, writer and lawyer, Elnathan John.
Funmi Iyanda will play moderator and the aim of the event will be to focus on gender inequality in Nigeria, and look at the ways in which women and men are fighting sexism and patriarchal oppression.
The to-be moderator explains “It seeks to address the underlying causes patriarchy in Nigeria, the costs to nation building, prosperity and happiness of the populace and ways of dismantling structures of patriarchy in ways true to Nigeria.”
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