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Apr 22, 2021 YouTube has launched its first YouTube Africa Reading Challenge, an online reading marathon featuring authors, influencers and key opinion leaders across Africa. In a bid to help popularise the work of African authors across the continent, the personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyin. The book is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It reveals the struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and r...

x According to the video platform, part of the aim of the initiative is to also help to popularise the work of African authors across the continent. The personalities will read extracts from The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives, a novel by the African-born Nigerian poet Lola Shoneyi. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is an entertaining, perceptive and enlightening portrayal of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. It reveals the struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships within the complex privat...

YouTube reading challenge to promote African authors Summary Google-owned YouTube has launched an online reading marathon dubbed the Africa Reading Challenge as a way of backing African writers. The online video platform will bring on about 54 readers drawn from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa where each county will have 18 representatives to read during the challenge, which is also aimed at promoting the reading culture in Africa. Seven renowned Kenyan artists are part of 18 readers that will be part of the month-long virtual challenge. Thursday April 22 2021 YouTube will deduct up to 24 per...