The Sigana International Storytelling Festival 2025 will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from June 27 to July 1, 2025.
Since 2009, the Sigana International Storytelling Festival has provided Kenyan audiences and lovers of the age-old sacred art of storytelling the rare opportunity to experience both homegrown and international performances. The festival, which is hosted biennially, is a creation of ZamaleoACT, a registered arts and culture public trust organization with a focus on creating and presenting African creative performance expressions. The last edition was hosted in Mombasa in 2023.
The 2025 edition with the theme “Threads of Literature: Weaving Stories, Building Generations” is a collaboration between ZamaleoACT, Cheche Books, the Kenya National Library, Alliance Française, and Mboka Festival. After a creative writing workshop dubbed “Applied African Speculative Fiction” at Cheche Books on Saturday, June 21, the official program will be held in venues like Cheche Books, the Kenya National Library, and Alliance Francaise from June 27. There will be storytelling, performative readings, book launches, discussions on Kenyan comics, intergenerational storytelling, climate futures, and special performances highlighting East African and Somali heritage. There will also be events honouring the late Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Micere Mugo.
Those who feature at the festival will include Annie Domingo, who will be launching her novel Breaking The Maafa Chain, John Titi Namai, Mueni Lundi, Kadija Sesay, Helen Alumbe, among others.
You can find the full program by clicking here.
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