Category: Festivals
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Ingcayizivele Book Festival 2024 for September 21
The Ingcayizivele Book Festival 2024 will be hosted in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa on Saturday, September 21, 2024. The festival theme is “telling our own stories.” The BookHive Book Club was set up for readers to meet once a month to socialise and discuss all things literary in 2014. The project founded by Bobo Lukhele…
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Quramo Festival of Words 2024, QFEST 2024, starts October 2
The Quramo Festival of Words or QFEST 2024 will be hosted in Lagos, Nigeria from October 2 – 6, 2024. The festival theme is “The Shifting.” Quramo Publishing first hosted the Quramo Festival of Words in Lagos, Nigeria in December 2017. Lagosians were treated to masterclasses, book readings, workshop discussions, film, theatre, and an open…
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Black British Book Festival 2024 guests known
The guests featuring at the Black British Book Festival 2024, including festival headliner Eve, which runs on October 5, 2004, are now known. The Black British Book Festival, celebrating and highlighting black authors across all genres of literature in the United Kingdom, has hosted some of the leading names in the publishing ecosystem in the…
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A snapshot of the Doek Literary Festival 2024.
The Doek Literary Festival 2024 was hosted in Windhoek, Namibia from August 21 – 24, 2024. Here is a view from the Southern African country. Jean-Claude Tjitamunisa took all images in this post and are courtesy of Doek Arts. In 2022, Windhoek-based Doek, known for its literary magazine and awards, hosted the first edition of…
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South Africa’s Poetry Africa 2024 guests known
Poetry Africa 2024 will be hosted in Durban, Bloemfontein, and Johannesburg, South Africa from October 3 – 12, 2024. The theme is “Poetry: Somehow We Survive” Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival first hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa in 1996. Since that first…
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Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin partly curated by Helon Habila
The guests for the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, partly curated by Helon Habila, which runs from September 5 – 14, 2024 have been announced. The Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (English: International Literature Festival Berlin) was founded by Ulrich Schreiber who directed it until 2023 when Lavinia Frey replaced him. Its broad stylistic and thematic spectrum brings literary…
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Chad’s Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2024 starts October 23
Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2024 will be hosted in N’djamena, Chad from October 23 – 26, 2024. The festival theme is “History, Roots and Memories.” Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan (English: Breath of the Harmattan Festival), popularly known as FISH, was founded by Mbernodji Sosthène in 2014. Sosthène is the executive secretary…
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Ake Arts & Book Festival 2024 dates announced
The Ake Arts & Book Festival 2024, the twelfth edition, is set to take place in Lagos, Nigeria from November 20 – 23, 2024. The Ake Arts and Book Festival was founded by Lola Shoneyin and first hosted in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 2013. It has since moved to its new home of Lagos with the…
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2024 longlists announced
The longlists for the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2024 were announced on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet, executed as a series of readings of classic and contemporary stories, workshops,…
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Macondo Literary Festival 2024 guests revealed.
The guests who will feature at the Macondo Literary Festival 2024 at the Kenya National Theatre, Nairobi from September 20 – 22, 2024 have been announced. The Macondo Literary Festival, organised by the Macondo Book Society, hosts panels, readings, performances of poetry and other art forms, and an epic closing party in Nairobi since its…
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Es’kia Colloquium 2024 for Wits University
The Es’kia Colloquium 2024 will be hosted at the Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa from July 31 – August 2, 2024. The theme is “freedom’s imaginaries. Es’kia Mphahlele was a South African writer, educationist, artist and activist celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and one of the founding figures of modern African literature. After…
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Soma Nami’s African Book Fair 2024 program unveiled
The program for Soma Nami Books’ African Book Fair 2024, to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from August 6 – 11, 2024 is now public. The African Book Fair 2023 was first brought to the Kenyan public when it was hosted at the MacMillan Library, Nairobi last year. The main draw was the moniker “Kenya’s…
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The Book Fairy Festival for Jamaica
The Book Fairy Festival will be hosted in Kingston, Jamaica from July 25 – 28, 2024. The Book Fairy Festival was founded and curated by Shanique Sinclair (also known as Shanz The Book Fairy), an advocate for literature, education, and the transformative power of books. The festival will include author signings, panels, a children’s…
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Open Book Festival 2024 guests announced.
The guests for the Open Book Festival 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa from September 6 – 8, 2024 have been announced. The Open Book Festival is a literary festival held annually in Cape Town, South Africa since 2011. It was initiated by Mervyn Sloman of The Book Lounge (a Cape Town-based bookshop) and Ben…
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Sarah Manyika Ladipo to headline Writers’ Circle Literary Festival
Sarah Manyika Ladipo is the main attraction at the Writers’ Circle Literary Festival in London, UK on Saturday, July 27, 2024. Diaspora Reflections is an organisation that connects members of the diaspora with well-curated events combining the arts, business, and wellness in the UK. For the last few years, they have been hosting music festivals,…