Sharjah Festival of African Literature 

Creative writing faculty member Dr. Chika Unigwe was an invited guest at the recently concluded Sharjah Festival of African Literature in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She was on a panel on how to create compelling characters in fiction. Other invited guests at the festival included two Nobel Laureates in Literature: Wole Soyinka (1986) and Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021).

The festival ran from 1/24/2025 to 1/27/2025.