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The Yasmin El-Rufai Foundation is a non-political, non-profit and a non-governmental organisation duly incorporated with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

Creativity Court; YELF
Joined August 2023
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YELF Literary Evening, July Edition with "Fatima Awaisu”. Date: 26th July, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM Prompt Location: Almara Centre, 22b Kanta Rd, City Centre, Kaduna Google Map Link: maps.app.goo.gl/hk4hywt6neuK… Open Mic Registration Link: forms.gle/zX3BkgEocvuyfYJb7 – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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Highlights from June's edition of the YELF Literary Evening with "Namse Udosen (PhD)". Click the link below to browse the complete gallery and relive the memorable moments from the event: drive.google.com/drive/folde… – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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YELF Literary Evening, June Edition with "Namse Udosen”. Date: 28th June, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM Prompt Location: Almara Centre, 22b Kanta Rd, City Centre, Kaduna Google Map Link: maps.app.goo.gl/hk4hywt6neuK… Online Open Mic Registration Link: forms.gle/WND6Wz4fbqSZjLz29 – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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For the June edition of the YELF Book Club meeting, we will read Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Dream Count follows the interconnected lives of four women: Chiamaka, a travel writer; Zikora, a lawyer; Omelogor, a banker; and Kadiatou, a housekeeper. – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name. Until a crack appears in the sky and widens and reveals us to ourselves, – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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as the pandemic did, because it was during lockdown that I began to sift through my life and give names to things long unnamed.” — Excerpt from 'Dream Count', pg. 3 – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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For the April edition of the YELF Book Club meeting, we will read Xala by Sembène Ousmane. Xala is a 1973 novel that was later translated and published in English in 1976 as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series. – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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the children have little contact with their father. Because of his way of life the father must go from house to house, villa to villa, and is only there in the evenings, at bedtime. – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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He is therefore primarily a source of finance, when he has work. The mother has to look after the children's education, so academic achievement is often very poor.)" Narrator, p. 61 ” — Excerpt 'Xala', p.61 – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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Highlights from March's edition of the YELF Literary Evening with "Nathaniel Bivan". Click the link below to browse the complete gallery and relive the memorable moments from the event drive.google.com/drive/folde… – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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For the March edition of the YELF Book Club meeting, we will read The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia. The Son of the House is a compelling novel about two women caught in a constricting web of tradition, class, gender, and motherhood. – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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Fought through disappointments, managed the lives of wilful and yet fragile children, survived the infidelities and idiosyncrasies of husbands, the abuses of life, mistakes and failures that came in different shades. – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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We knew each other well, better than the men in our lives did or had cared to know.” — Excerpt from Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia's "The Son of the House" (2019) – at Kaduna, Nigeria
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