Abi Daré | And So I Roar
Thu 24 Apr 2025 | 7:30pm - 8:30pm
** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE 2025 **
The Girl With the Louding Voice was an international bestseller that resonated with readers everywhere. We are hugely excited to be welcoming Abi Daré with her follow-up novel And So I Roar, which continues Adunni’s captivating story. A sudden knock at the gate threatens to prevent Adunni’s much-desired education. Despite the devastating effects of climate change on the lives of poor rural women, Adunni must roar in her fight for a brighter future.
In conversation with Jendella Benson
Venue: Glasses Station Stage (Old Divinity School)
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets available soon.
Author Biography
Abi Daré was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and holds a degree in law from the University of Wolverhampton, an MSc in International Project Management from Glasgow Caledonian University and an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her debut novel, The Girl with the Louding Voice, was a New York Times and international bestseller, a BBC Radio 4 Book Club read and was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. It has been translated into twenty-one languages. In 2023, Abi established The Louding Voice Foundation to provide scholarships and empowerment programs for women and girls in underserved communities in Nigeria. She now lives in Essex.
Chair Biography
Jendella Benson is a British-Nigerian author of two novels, Hope & Glory (2022) and All That We’ve Got (2024). She is also Head of Editorial at Black Ballad – the award winning digital magazine and membership community for Black women in Britain and beyond.
