How Akada Children’s Book Festival is Celebrating African Creativity through Storytelling

For eight years, the Akada Children’s Book Festival has brought children, parents, teachers, exhibitors and book lovers together in a celebration of African creativity expressed through children’s picture books. The eighth edition, held on 23 May 2026 in Lagos, was themed “Big Dreams, Bold Stories”. Esther Oluku reports that the event is crystallising into a movement aimed at reviving reading among children in a fast moving digital age

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