Qfest (Quramo Festival of Words) 2026: Day 1 Highlights

 

Quramo Publishing Ltd. held its annual book & art festival, Qfest (Quramo Festival of Words), over the weekend, from the 1st to the 3rd of October. This year's theme, Pieces of Us, celebrated 10 years of African storytelling by Quramo Publishing, creativity, culture and the voices that have shaped it. The theme also brings inherited stories, the present ones being told & future ones still waiting to be told. 

Day 1's Highlights... 

                                                       

- Fireside chat with Supo Shasore, SAN &  lawyer/activist Nze Ed Nduka-Eze, on The Civil War (1967-1970): History, Identity & Nation Building. 

                                   

-The Nigerian Crisis (1966-1970): An Honest Path to Resolution & National Reconciliation; with Dejo Olatoye, C. Don Adinuba, Richard Mammah  & Kadaria Ahmed,  moderated by Mr Nze Ed Nduka-Eze

                                     

 - Film Screening:  Hope is a Word.

                                         

Directed by Maria Galliani Dyrvik,  it followed Nigerian poet & environmental activist Nnimmo Bassey as he mentored youths in the oil-ravaged Niger Delta, inspiring them to harness poetry as a powerful tool for healing & resistance.  Femi Odugbemi served as Executive Producer of the 82 min documentary.