Pius Adesanmi

Pius Adebola Adesanmi (27 February 1972"Pius Adesanmi: Nigerian image is a burden" (interview), EverythinLiterature, 1 July 2007. – 10 March 2019) was a Nigerian-born Canadian professor, writer, literary critic, satirist, and columnist. He was the author of Naija No Dey Carry Last. In 2015, he gave a TED talk titled "Africa is the forward that the world needs to face".

Adesanmi died on 10 March 2019, when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed shortly after take-off.

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Other websites
In Pius Adesanmi's speech and writing, there is hope for a Pan-African future (February 2016) LSE Summit Interview
Articles by Pius Adesanmi

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