Tag: Okey Ndibe
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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from day five of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 5 winding it down
The Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 is winding down to the sadness of delegates, both local and international, who are interacting, learning, and have become friends with one another. There were several highlights from this day. One of these was the luncheon that the Mansour Hotel, which is where all international guests stayed, gave. At…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 4 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the fourth day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 images and videos
Here are some images and videos from the third day of the Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 taken with my trusty camera phone.
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day 3 thrills and spills
The action in the hottest literary festival happening right now continued in the biggest city in Somaliland on Monday. We had been enjoying the rich literary offering and world-class friendliness of the people of Hargeisa and it didn’t look like it was changing any time in the near future. There were many panels that we…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015: Day two expands horizons
The second day of the festival dawned bright and early for us at the biggest literary festival in the Horn of Africa. The day was filled with many activities for those who were searching to find something to learn what was new and happening in the African literary game. The days here have been very…
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The 8th Hargeysa International Book Fair is coming
The eighth running of Somaliland’s premier literary shindig, the Hargeysa International Book Fair, will be happening from 1st – 6th August at the Gualid Hotel. It promises to be very cool. The number of people flying in from all over the world to visit what some have described as the safest city in the region…
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Open Book Cape Town Festival 2015 for September
The Open Book literary festival which happens every year in Cape Town, South Africa will this year happen from 9-13 September. This is one of the fastest growing festivals on the planet as the first one was only held in 2011. This year’s festival organisers have already started signing some very cool writers for those…
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Hargeysa International Book Fair 2015 in August
The Hargeysa International Book Fair will be happening this year in Hargeysa, Somaliland from 1-6 August and the theme is “Spaces.” The guest country will be Nigeria. The fair looks at all the spaces that are around us. These are all the spaces be they physical, spiritual, cultural, political, social, personal, space within the community, space…
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Okey Ndibe salutes Ngugi Wa Thiongo on his birthday
In case you missed it, Monday was Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s birthday or as this toddler I know (OK, it’s really me), it was his “happy birthday.” Kenya’s most famous literary son was born on 5 January 1938 in Kamiriithu, near Limuru, Kiambu County, the fifth child of the third of his father’s four wives. So…
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A snapshot of the Ake Festival 2014 in Nigeria
The Ake Arts & Books Festival was hosted in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria from 18-22 November. The festival organised by Lola Shoneyin and her team had a huge number of very cool artists attend a literary festival if this list is anything to go by. This is one of the festivals where I couldn’t find…