Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

2025 Recap: Literary Festivals, Colloquia, and Book Fairs

As part of our 2025 year-in-review, here is a rundown of the literary festivals, colloquia, and book fairs we tracked here at Writing Africa.

We closely follow events that feature African writers, as these are vital spaces for engagement with readers. Following our 2024 recap, we continued this focus in 2025 by compiling a global list of relevant festivals and book fairs. We updated it throughout the year as venues and dates were announced, ultimately tracking approximately 109 events.

By year’s end, we had published dozens of reports on individual events across the continent—including in Morocco, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Nigeria, Mali, Ghana, DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Somaliland, and Ethiopia.

We also highlighted festivals outside of Africa, in Jamaica, the UAE, the USA, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Australia, and Martinique.

Below is the complete list of events we covered at Writing Africa.

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