Lola Shoneyin

Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet and author who lives in Lagos, where she curates the annual Aké Arts and Book Festival. She has published three volumes of poetry, and her humorous, outspoken verse often turns to female sexuality and the strains of domestic life in Africa. Her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, launched in the UK in May 2010, and her writing has won the Ken Saro-Wiwa Award in Nigeria and a PEN Literary Award in America.