Category: Events
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Mahmood Mamdani Launches New Book To Full Houses in Nairobi
Mahmood Mamdani launched his latest book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State, in Nairobi on January 23 and 24, 2026. The work challenges the simplistic narrative that Uganda’s troubles began solely with Idi Amin. Drawing on five decades of archival research, courtroom testimony, and firsthand interviews, Mamdani argues…
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o to be celebrated at US University
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o will be celebrated at the “Translating Ngũgĩ | Celebration of the Life and Work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o” conference at UC Irvine, USA, from November 13 – 14, 2025. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a renowned Kenyan novelist, playwright, essayist, and academic. He was a leading voice in African literature, known for his…
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Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize winners for Mombasa on August 16
The Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize 2024 winners will be hosted at a forum in Mombasa, Kenya, on Saturday, August 16, 2025. The Safal Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature celebrates writing in poetry and prose in the Kiswahili language since 2015’s first winners. Founded by Dr Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Dr Lizzy Attree, it is supported…
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Guernica Mag visits Lagos, Nigeria
A Guernica Mag team, led by founder Michael Archer, was hosted to several activities in Lagos, Nigeria, in June. Guernica is an online magazine that focuses on the intersection of art and politics, publishing a range of work, including fiction, poetry, essays, reporting, art, and interviews. Founded in 2004 by Michael Archer, it provides global…
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Nana Ekua Brew Hammond features at Labone Dialogues
Nana Ekua Brew Hammond was a guest of “Labone Dialogues,” the series hosted by NYU Accra in Ghana on Thursday, December 5, 2024. ‘Labone Dialogues by NYU Accra’ was conceived and curated by New York University Accra Director Prof Chiké Frankie Edozien in Accra, Ghana in 2020. The series hosts events celebrating writers and other…
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Nadia Maddy novel Corpo Seco launches in London
Nadia Maddy’s sophomore novel Corpo Seco launched at the Africa Centre in London, UK on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. Nadia Maddy, a London-based writer with roots in Sierra Leone, is the author of The Palm Oil Stain (2011), which tackles the realities of the Sierra Leonean Civil War. Her newest novel Corpo Seco which we recently featured…
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Dennis Mugaa book launches in Nairobi
Dennis Mugaa’s debut short story collection Half Portraits Under Water launched at Cheche Books, Nairobi on Thursday, September 19, 2024. In the last few years, Dennis Mugaa has quietly built a reputation for producing outstanding work in the Kenyan and African literary spaces. The former Prestige Bookstore employee started learning his trade at workshops like…
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Macondo LitFest 2024, Nairobi International Book Fair 2024 for Nairobi
The second half of September has a raft of literary activities from book launches to literary and book fairs. Here are some you don’t want to miss. Nairobi has always been one of the most happening literary cities with many activities throughout the year. In September, the city goes into a literary frenzy with organisers…
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Grande Rentrée Littéraire de Kinshasa 2024 starts September 12
Grande Rentrée Littéraire de Kinshasa 2024 will be hosted in DR Congo’s capital from September 12 – 14, 2024. The event theme will be “Women and Peace.” Rentrée Littéraire is a practice adopted by French publishers, characterised by many new book releases (all styles and genres mixed). It takes place every year between late August…
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Abidjan and Accra in focus at litafrika 2024
Abidjan and Accra are the focus of the third edition of the litafrika 2024 exhibition at Strauhof Zurich from June 6 – September 8, 2024. “litafrika” is an open archive literary exhibition project in three parts organised by Swiss partners Litar Foundation and Strauhof Zurich. It revolves around the central question: “How do we read…
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Rebeka Njau’s “Ripples in the Pool” launches in Nairobi
Rebeka Njau’s 1975 novel Ripples in the Pool, reissued this year by Bloomsbury Publishing, launched at the Alliance Française, Nairobi on Friday, June 14, 2024. Rebeka Njau is Kenya’s first female playwright and a pioneer in the representation of African women in literature. She is famously one of the only two women, alongside Grace Ogot,…
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Colombia’s La Comadre tours Nairobi
La Comadre, a women’s organisation of Afro-Colombian victims of the decades-long Colombian conflict, was hosted to events in Nairobi, Kenya from June 4 – 5, 2024. Colombia has had internal conflicts between the government, far-right paramilitary groups and crime syndicates, and far-left guerrilla groups, fighting each other for decades. In 2012, negotiations began between the…
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Literary initiatives to check out during Caribbean-American Heritage Month
June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month in the US, here are some initiatives in the Caribbean that you might want to check out. June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month in the United States as well as a special one across the Caribbean. The region, which hosts many people of African descent, has produced some of the most…
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Jahazi Journal Edition 11 launches in Nairobi.
The eleventh edition of the Jahazi Journal with the theme “Perspective of Theatre Practice in Kenya” launched in Nairobi on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. Jahazi is an arts & culture journal that builds bridges between theory & practice founded by late performing artist, director, playwright, storyteller, poet, and academic Bantu Mwaura in 2006. The eleventh…
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Habiba Cooper Diallo, Afua Cooper read at Dakar’s Chez Alpha Books
Habiba Cooper Diallo and Afua Cooper did readings at Chez Alpha Books in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday, August 12, 2023. Chez Alpha Books is an English resource centre that provides the community access to books in English along with an array of programs and services that support English language learners in Dakar, Senegal. It has…