Tag: Heroe Book Fair
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A snapshot of the Heroe Book Fair 2022
The Heroe Book Fair was hosted at the Close The Gap Hub in Ratna Square, Mombasa, Kenya from May 5-7, 2022. The festival theme was “Emancipation.” Heroe Book Fair is a Pan-African literary event bringing together Anglophone, Francophone, and German speaking writers, poets, publishers, and literary enthusiasts to celebrate their literary works and achievements in…
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Petina Gappah is Heroe Book Fair 2022 keynote speaker
Petina Gappah will be the keynote speaker at the Heroe Book Fair 2022 which runs in Mombasa, Kenya from May 5-7, 2022. The festival theme is “Emancipation.” Heroe Book Fair is a Pan-African literary event bringing together Anglophone, Francophone, and German speaking writers, poets, publishers, and literary enthusiasts for a couple of days celebration of…
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Heroe Book Fair 2022 announces dates, theme, bookstore partnership.
Heroe Book Fair 2022, to happen from March 22 – 26, revealed their theme as well as Soma Nami Books as their official bookstore, on October 28, 2022. Heroe Book Fair was founded by Kenyan writer Lorna Likiza to bring together Anglophone, Francophone and German speaking writers, poets, publishers and literary enthusiasts from Africa and…
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Inaugural Heroe Book Fair kicks off today March 22
The Heroe Book Fair will be happening concurrently in Mombasa, Kenya, and online from March 22-26, 2021. The festival theme is belonging. Heroe Book Fair, founded by Kenyan writer Lorna Likiza, intends to bring together Anglophone, Francophone, and German-speaking writers, poets, publishers, and literary enthusiasts from Africa and the Black Diaspora in a celebration of…
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Covid-19: Heroe Book Fair moved to March 2021.
As a result of issues brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the forthcoming Heroe Book Fair has been moved to March 22-26, 2021. In February, the Heroe Book Festival a new book bonanza set for Nakuru, named after the Kiswahili word for flamingo the bird most associated with the town, was announced. The event run…
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The Heroe Book Fair, Nakuru’s first major book fair, is set for July 23-25, 2020.
The Heroe Book Fair 2020, the first major book fair in Nakuru, Kenya, will run at the Player’s Theatre from July 23-25, 2020. While Nakuru, the fourth largest city in Kenya after Nairobi, Mombasa, and Kisumu, is well known for the arts like music and theatre, the literary arts like prose and poetry haven’t thrived…