This event will bring Lagos-based, socially engaged arts organisation Kininso Koncepts to King’s for an interactive creative workshop and a research-led panel discussion, as part of the African Leadership Centre's Africa Week (3-7 March 2025). Kininso Koncepts is a creative organisation and “an inclusive hub that utilises creativity, technology, stories, and design innovation to tell authentic African and contemporary stories, challenge the status quo, and shift perception”.

Creative workshop: 1-4pm, 4 March 2025, REACH Space

A Kininso team of performance-makers will mobilise their innovative methods of storytelling to deliver a workshop that invites participants to draw on lived experience to generate challenging artistic work that shifts perceptions through anti-racist and decolonial approaches.

Panel discussion: 6.30 – 8.30pm, 4 March 2025, Bush House Lecture Theatre 3

A research-led panel discussion, followed by drinks, will be open to the public. It will include a reading of part of Kininso’s play Waterside, which explores themes of animism and ecology against the backdrop of oil exploitation in the Niger Delta, followed by a thematic discussion with King’s researchers Raidat Karim, Adelene Buckland and Clement Sefa-Nyarko, chaired by Annabel Ali. The panel brings together scholars from across the College with interests in creative practice, youth-led social movements, and eco-criticism.

About Kininso Koncepts

Kininso Koncepts are: Stanley Okeke, Edgar Eriakha (Performance & Workshops); Joshua Alabi (CEO/Creative Director, and writer & director for Waterside); Angela Peters (Head of Operations/Producer);Blessing Okunlola (Technical/Media Lead);Areoye Qoyyum (Production Manager); Praise Alabi (Legal Officer); Chinenye Chukwudi (Administration Officer); Aniefiok Inyang (Creative Strategy/Property Manager); Rosemary Ayodele (Design Strategy/Art Direction); Simbiat Owolabi (Finance).