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African Book Festival Berlin 2025: Book Clubs invited.
The African Book Festival Berlin 2025 has invited African-based book clubs to the German capital from July 18 – 20, 2025. The leading African writers, poets, and thinkers on the continent and in the diaspora have converged on Berlin, Germany for the African Book Festival since the first edition in 2018. It has quietly become…
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African Book Festival Berlin announces 2025 curator
Writer and spoken word artist Ivana Akotowaa Ofori is the curator of the African Book Festival Berlin which runs in the German capital from July 18 – 20, 2025. Festival organisers also stated that the theme will be ‘In Other Wor(l)ds’, when the announcement was made on Monday. The leading African writers, poets, and thinkers…
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African Book Festival Berlin announces new board
The African Book Festival Berlin is a project conceived and run by the InterKontinental literary agency in the German capital since 2018. It has featured readings, discussions, music, poetry performances, and interactive, and modern event formats with many leading African writers working today. It has run in themes like the Queer Edition (2024), Yesterday. Today.…
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African Book Festival Berlin 2024 Queer Edition
The African Book Festival Berlin 2024, running from June 28 – 30, 2024, has been named the “Queer Edition.” The African Book Festival Berlin has been happening in the German city since 2018. Apart from the two Covid years, the festival has run to much success with many new markets for African writers being introduced.…
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African Book Festival Berlin 2023 guests announced.
The artists taking part in the African Book Festival Berlin 2023 running in the German capital from August 25 – 27 were revealed on Thursday, June 22, 2023. The African Book Festival Berlin has been happening in the German city since 2018. Apart from the two Covid years, the festival has run to much success…
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African Book Festival Berlin disinvites its 2023 curator
The African Book Festival Berlin 2023 which happens from August 25-27 disinvited its curator Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini on March 14, 2023. The African Book Festival Berlin has been happening in the German city since 2018. Apart from the two Covid years, the festival has run to much success with many new markets for African…
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Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini to curate African Book Festival Berlin 2023
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini, the new curator of the African Book Festival Berlin 2023 which runs from August 25-27, has been revealed today. In 2018, many of the leading African writers, poets, and thinkers on the continent and in the diaspora converged on Berlin, Germany for the African Book Festival. It has gone on to…
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Participants of Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022 revealed.
The artists taking part in the African Book Festival 2022 at the Nåpoleon Komplex, Berlin, Germany from August 26-28 were revealed on June 5, 2022. The African Book Festival featuring some of the leading writers in Africa and its diaspora has been hosted in Berlin since 2018. It has established itself as a leading meeting…
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Margaret Busby is Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022 headliner.
Margaret Busby has today been revealed to be the headliner for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022. The festival runs from August 26-28, 2022. The African Book Festival featuring some of the leading writers in Africa and its diaspora has been hosted in Berlin, Germany since 2018. It has established itself as a leading meeting place…
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Lidudumalingani to curate Berlin’s African Book Festival 2022.
Lidudumalingani has today been revealed to be the curator of the African Book Festival 2022 which runs in Berlin, Germany from August 26-28, 2022. The festival theme is “Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow” Since 2018, writers from across Africa and the African diaspora have converged on Germany’s capital for the annual African Book Festival. The festival in…
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Berlin’s African Book Festival 2021 for July 16-17
The African Book Festival 2021 is set to happen in Berlin, Germany on July 16-17, 2021. In the last few years, Berlin has hosted and celebrated African writers and poets in the iKontinental organised African Book Festival. At this event, hundreds of bibliophiles visited the German city’s Babylon Theatre for book presentations, readings, poetry, concerts,…
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José Eduardo Agualusa is Berlin’s African Book Festival 2020 headliner.
José Eduardo Agualusa was revealed as the headliner of Berlin’s African Book Festival 2020 on Friday, February 14, 2020. In 2018, African writers met for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner in Berlin. Hundreds of bibliophiles visited the German city’s Babylon Theatre for book presentations, readings, poetry, concerts, interviews, and panel…
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Kalaf Epalanga is Berlin’s African Book Festival 2020 curator.
Kalaf Epalanga was announced as the curator for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2020 on September 23, 2019. The festival runs from April 17-19, 2020 with the theme “Telling the Origin Stories.” In April 2018, writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. Booklovers…
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A snapshot of the African Book Festival 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
The African Book Festival 2019 was hosted in Berlin, Germany from April 4-7, 2019. Writers from across Africa and its diaspora attended the first edition of the InterKontinental organised African Book Festival in April 2018. The festival curated by Olumide Popoola was attended by some of the biggest names in African writing today with Chris…
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Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 guest list unveiled.
The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga runs from April 4-7, 2019. In 2018, writers from across Africa and its diaspora converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. The festival organised by InterKontinental and…