Ake Festival 2022 | BOOK CHAT - Kenanao Phele, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Leye Adenle

Drawing on age-old African story-telling traditions, modern science-fiction and contemporary thriller writing, award-winning authors Leye Adenle and Khadija Abdalla Bajaber talk to Kenanao Phele about their new works. In House of Rust, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue her father, guided by a talking cat, crows, and goats, even as things grow increasingly strange back home. In The Beautiful Side of the Moon, Osaretin thinks he is just a modest IT guy living in Lagos until he is thrown into a wild and wonderful adventure which sees him flying through space and fighting off a powerful and determined arch- enemy.