NAMED.
The identities we inherit and the names through which we are first understood.
2026 Festival Preview
NAMED. UNNAMED. RENAMED.
Power, Identity and the Right to Self-Definition
A festival exploring how identity is inherited, shaped, challenged and reclaimed.
About
A Festival of Meaning and Memory
Things Fall Apart Festival brings people together around Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart — not simply to revisit a literary work, but to open conversations about identity, memory and the ways we understand ourselves and one another.
The Abuja Preview offers an intimate first encounter with that wider festival idea.
Theme
NAMED. UNNAMED. RENAMED.
UNNAMED.
The memories, experiences and parts of ourselves that exist beyond easy definition.
RENAMED.
The power to question inherited definitions and participate in defining who we become.
Together, NAMED. UNNAMED. RENAMED. asks who gets to define identity — and what happens when we participate in defining ourselves.
The Experience
From Theme to Experience
In Abuja, these questions move beyond the page through reading, conversation, memory, games, movement and shared participation.
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Reserve Your Place
Limited attendance. Reserve your place for the Abuja Preview Experience.
Limited attendance