Stars over Uppsala

on Tuesday night, when five fabulous artists, from three corners of Africa, take the stage at the Slottsbiografen for a night of music and poetry.

I'll have the pleasure of MC-ing, and do a 20 minute set as well.

You'll hear poetry from two of the three previous Guest Writers at the Nordic Africa Institute: South Africa's stellar Gabeba Baderoon, and Nigeria's power-blogger, Tolu Ogunlesi. We'd hoped that the inaugural Guest Writer, the Grande Dame herself, Ama Ata Aidoo, would be here too. Sadly, she's committed elsewhere.

However, Jennifer Ferguson, singer-songwriter-former MP from South Africa, and Ahmadu Jarr and his band, from Sierra Leone, will more than fill the gap, with uniquely different but equally compelling musical sets. Both will appear on stage twice, in the first and second halves of the show.

I'm feeling melancholy about saying goodbye to Uppsala, in ten days time. So it's good to have something this rich and sparkling for my final public performance here.