As part of its efforts to promote African Literature within and outside the African continent, the Pan African Writers Association ( PAWA) has concluded arrangements to partner with a Nigerian private radio station, Oxygen FM Radio to use the radio as another medium for the dissemination of literary and cultural products.
The agreement was formalized during the visit of the PAWA Secretary General, Dr Wale Okediran to the premises of the Radio station on Monday, March 30, 2026.
The Oxygen FM 96.9 radio which is based in Ibadan, Nigeria was established to inform, inspire and ignite the potential of African listeners through educational programming, innovative storytelling, community engagement, and sustainable broadcasting excellence.
Through a powerful streaming technology, the radio station has the ability to be accessed globally.
In the agreement, PAWA will in conjunction with Oxygen FM, utilize the well known role of the radio as a powerful medium of literary and cultural diffusion to organize literary events in the official PAWA languages of Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Swahili in addition to a few indigenous African languages.
The PAWA Radio program which should commence by May 2026, will cover book reviews, marketing, short drama presentations, poetry, short stories, spoken word and other indigenous genres.
It is expected that the program will also encourage the resuscitation of the age long tradition of oral literature.
Above picture showed the PAWA Secretary General, Dr Wale Okediran with the Head of the Radio station, Ms Folakemi Tokunbo- Ishola during the visit.
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