Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

Recap 2024: Literary Festivals, Colloquia, and Book Fairs

As part of our 2024 recap, we give a rundown of the literary festivals, colloquia, and book fairs we tracked here at Writing Africa in 2024.

One of the most important parts of the literary and publishing industry is the events hosted for those producing the work that readers love. These events come in the form of book launches and readings at the most basic and book fairs, literary festivals, and colloquiums at the more advanced have important roles for the sector. Readers get to meet their favourite writers, have their books signed and even selfies, a relatively new thing. Writers get to meet readers, other writers, and industry players. For the blogger, this is where one can meet those they cover regularly. For this reason, we invest huge resources in cash and time to track what is happening in this vital area.

For 2024, we started with a page where we tracked the literary festival scene and we learnt a lot over the period. There were 123 festivals and fairs on the continent in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Guinee, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Togo, Tunisia, and Zimbabwe. In the diaspora, we had events in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Reunion, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK, the US Virgin Islands, and the USA.

Here are the festivals we tracked on the continent and in the diaspora over the year. The ones with links are the ones we did a blog about;

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