Recent Activities
She has just concluded a three-month residency programme with the Iowa International Writing Programme(IWP) at the University of Iowa, USA.
She organizes Breakfast Meetings with Nobel Laureates and renowned intellectuals which so far has included, Prof. Eric Maskin, Prof. Derek Walcott, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Prof. Finn Kydland, Dr. Noel J. Brown, Dr. Betty Williams, Henry Louis Gates and the former US Poet Laureate, Rita Dove.
Delivering a paper on The 11th Hour: Armistice, Reconciliation, Remembrance" to commemorate Veteran's Day, at the white house, Washington DC, on November 10, 2011. The title of Ogochukwu Promise's paper is: THESE LEAVES, GREEN AND FULL SHALL BANDAGE OUR WOUNDS.
With Wole Soyinka & Derek Walcott
Meeting with students at Lincoln Memorial
Welcome party, IWP fellows at the residence of Chris Merrill, IWP Director.
Reading at Prairie Lights Bookshop, University of Iowa
During the closing talk on Images of America, Nov. 4, 2011, University of Iowa.
Speaking at Senior College, Johnson County Senior Centre, Iowa.
At US Bank party, with a gift of a golden coin.
Performance at the poetry Foundation, San Francisco.
Manhattan, New York.
During a class visit, West High School. Iowa.
Meet the audience.
Rehearsal, San Francisco.
Meeting with students at School Without Walls in Washington at an international exchange on world literature.
With Rita Dove & Eric Maskin