DAY ONE: EDIN HERE I COME!It‘s Thursday 19th August 2010 and I am just walking into room 520 in my hotel in Scotland’s capital city. Once I’d accepted the British Council nomination to represent Nigeria at the world’s biggest literary festival about 2 months ago, I had to learn to spell the ...

At the foot of the Sudety Mountain and on the Oder River, seats Wroclaw, one of Poland’s oldest and most beautiful cities. Wroclaw has twelve islands, one hundred and twelve bridges and a population of almost 636,000 people. ‘The rich, stormy history of the city is inscribed in its walls’ some...