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Chike Nwoffiah, founder of the Silicon Valley African Film Festival (SVAFF), drew his Nigerian and African community to San Jose to celebrate a work years in the making, one that carries his advocacy for African storytelling from the screen to the page. Chike Nwoffiah (Founder and Executive Director, Silicon Valley African Film Festival; director, A Killing in Choctaw, Sabar, and Life Is a Dance, IMDb) has spent over a decade building platforms for African filmmakers to tell

In a spectacular convergence of literary and political power, Nigerian-born novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie joined former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the London Literature Festival on October 23, 2025, for a live conversation at London’s Southbank Centre. Adichie, whose novels like Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun have crossed continents and cultures, brought her signature eloquence, exploring themes of identity, feminism and the African diaspora. Harris, fresh

Adichie’s Dream Count trains its eye on four women in a sparkling, transcendent story that takes up the very nature of love itself. On the evening of March 8, 2025, literature enthusiasts and cultural thought leaders gathered at the Hammer Theatre in San Jose for an unforgettable conversation with acclaimed writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Hosted by the Kepler Literary Foundation, and promoted by the Silicon Valley Film Festival (SVAFF) with representatives including founder