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Feb 2020
27m 26s

Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fa...

National Theatre
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Writer Inua Ellams and Director Nadia Fall discuss their new production of Three Sisters. Chaired by Louisa Uchum Egbunike, Lecturer in English at City, University of London, Curator of the Legacies of Biafra touring exhibition and Co-Convenor of the Annual Igbo Conference. 
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