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Inua Ellams and Fuel present An Evening with an Immigrant

Thursday 12 March 2026 // 7:30pm // The Friendship Cafe, Gloucester // Pay-what-you-can

Award-winning poet and playwright Inua Ellams, born to a Muslim father and a Christian mother in what is now considered to be Boko Haram territory, left Nigeria for England in 1996 aged 12.

Littered with poems, stories and anecdotes, Inua tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant immigrant-story of escaping fundamentalist Islam, finding friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre, and drinking wine with the Queen of England, all the while without a country to belong to or a place to call home.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "His words are incredible… The poems are just stunning." Everything Theatre

Presented in Gloucester by Strike A Light

https://strikealight.org.uk/an-evening-with-an-immigrant/

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An evening with an Immigrant

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Painswick Road, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 6PR

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