Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was the featured guest at the MacMillan Memorial Library on Saturday, August 3, 2019. She was moderated by Nanjala Nyabola. Yvonne Adhiambo…
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Category: Book Events
Goethe-Institut Kenya’s Artistic Encounters 2019 artists announced.
Artists for Goethe-Institut Kenya’s Artistic Encounters 2019 have been announced by series creator and curator Zukiswa Wanner. In 2017, the Goethe-Institut introduced Kenyan audiences to…
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Pede Hollist, Hana Kefela kick off Goethe’s Artistic Encounters 2018.
Novelist, short story writer and academic Pede Hollist and actor Hana Kefela kicked off Goethe-Institut Kenya’s Artistic Encounters 2018 on Friday May 11. The event…
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Gaborone Book Festival hosts World Book Day 2018 celebrations.
The Gaborone Book Festival Trust hosted a Book Night on World Book Day 2018 to celebrate the transformative power of books on April 23, 2018.…
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Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” at 60 celebration
Chinua Achebe’s work Things Fall Apart at 60 was celebrated with readings by some of the most well-known African writers working today at the South…
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Pede Hollist, Hana Kefela to kick off Goethe Nairobi’s Artistic Encounters 2018.
Writer Pede Hollist and actor Hana Kefela are the first to feature at the Goethe-Institut Kenya’s Artistic Encounters 2018. They will be performing at the…
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Caine Prize workshop participants feature at #KigaliLit
The #KigaliLit session that happens regularly in Kigali, Rwanda this past month featured writers who had been attending the Caine Prize workshop in the East…
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Ayobami Adebayo and Zukiswa Wanner dazzle Nairobi residents
Ayobami Adebayo and Zukiswa Wanner dazzled Nairobi residents over a series of literary events from February 22-24, 2018. The two were in the city at…
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Ayobami Adebayo, Zukiswa Wanner for Literary Crossroads in Goethe Nairobi
Ayobami Adebayo and Zukiswa Wanner are the featured novelists for this month’s edition of Literary Crossroads at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi on February 23, 2018. They…
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Huza Press event KigaliLit rocks Rwanda’s literary scene
Author Sarah Stricker was the guest at the second edition of KigaliLit at the Goethe-Institut Kigali on January 31, 2018. The German writer was moderated…
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Sisonke Msimang hosts unique storytelling performance in Nairobi
Writer and activist Sisonke Msimang was the host of a unique storytelling performance dubbed “Stories of Women and Girls: The Moth in Nairobi” at the…
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LONG READ: Zainab Suleiman Okino on the challenges of publishing in Northern Nigeria
Zainab Suleiman Okino the Editor-In-Chief of Blueprint Newspapers made a presentation to members of Abuja Writers’ Forum on Saturday, the 28th of October, 2017. We…
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Angela Makholwa, Patricia Kihoro headline Goethe Nairobi’s Artistic Encounters
South African author Angela Makholwa is set to co-feature at the final Goethe-Institut Nairobi’s Artistic Encounters on November 9th, 2017 with singer and actress Patricia…
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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim for Nairobi in September
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim for Nairobi in September Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will be doing readings at Goethe Institut’s Literary Crossroads and the Storymoja Festival in Nairobi…
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Rehana Rossouw and Fiston Mwanza Mujila for Literary Crossroads Johannesburg
Rehana Rossouw and Fiston Mwanza Mujila for Literary Crossroads on Tuesday 5 September, 7pm Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. The two will be moderated by University of Johannesburg’s…
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