Photograph of a young man with a serious expression, black and white, with a background of blurred trees on the left side. On the right side, a book cover titled "Open Water" by Caleb Azumah Nelson, featuring close-up images of a young man and woman, with a red, orange, and blue color scheme.

Jikoni x Caleb Azumah Nelson

28th March 2021

On 28th March at 6pm, 26-year-old British Ghanaian photographer and writer Caleb Azumah Nelson will take to our digital stage and read from his stunning debut novel Open Water which has launched to rapturous praise. He will be in conversation with author, painter and essayist Yemisi Aribasala whose work has been widely published in British Vogue & The New Yorker. She won the Andre Simon Award for her must-read food memoir Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and the Nigerian Taste Buds.