Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech 2025 returns to its Moroccan home from January 30 – February 2, 2025.
Festival du Livre Africain de Marrakech (English: African Book Festival Marrakech) is a literary festival bringing together writers, thinkers, and intellectuals from the continent, its diasporas, and its descendants. It was founded by writer and visual artist Mahi Binebine, journalist Fatimata Sagna, academic Hanane Essaydi, and cultural entrepreneur Younès Ajarraï and first hosted in 2023. It featured literary cafés, panels, book signings and readings, youth programming, educational activities, and interventions in universities and schools. Evenings were punctuated by music, readings, storytelling, poetry, and cinema.
The third edition returns with similar events at the Les Étoiles Cultural Center in Jamaa El Fnaa and the French Institute at the end of January. There will be a special tribute to women with Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Aminata Traoré, Rokhaya Diallo, and Moroccan women like Fedwa Misk, Myriam Jebbor, and Rim Battal on the festival stages. The Mauritian writer and literary icon Ananda Devi will give a keynote address which will be hosted by Christiane Taubira.
Other writers will be Alaa Aswany, Mbougar Sarr, Mahi Binebine, Mamadou Diouf, Abderrahmane Wabiry, Kebir Mustapha Ammi, Colette Fellous, Éric Fottorino, and others.
For more information, we recommend the official website or the Facebook page.
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