{"id":249187,"date":"2026-11-06T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tomi-falade-leads-nigerian-writers-to-2026-helsinki-book-fair\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T00:00:15","slug":"nigeria-tomi-falade-leads-nigerian-writers-to-2026-helsinki-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tomi-falade-leads-nigerian-writers-to-2026-helsinki-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tomi Falade Leads Nigerian Writers to 2026 Helsinki Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">At the exhibition, Nigerian creatives displayed literary works, fine art and traditional crafts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nigerian writer and journalist Tomi Falade took African literature, visual arts and traditional crafts to an international audience at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kirjamessut.messukeskus.com\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Helsinki Book Fair<\/a><\/strong> in Finland, leading a delegation of Nigerian creatives to the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>Acceptance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Ms Falade said this in a statement she sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, adding that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611050499.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the exhibition, Nigerian creatives displayed literary works, fine art and traditional crafts. Nigerian writer and journalist Tomi Falade took African literature, visual arts and traditional crafts to an international audience at the 2026 Helsinki Book Fair in Finland, leading a delegation of Nigerian creatives to the event. Acceptance Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8306,7724,55781,55782,9429,257,4687,393,482,254,55780,7336],"class_list":["post-249187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-book","tag-fair","tag-falade","tag-helsinki","tag-leads","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tomi","tag-writers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}