The Nigeria International Book Fair 2023 will be hosted in Lagos, Nigeria from May 10 – 13, 2023. The Nigeria International Book Fair was first hosted by the Nigerian Publishers Association in Lagos in 2001. The book fair has grown to become one of the leading publishing events in the West African region. News has […]
Fête Du Livre de Kinshasa 2023, the festival hosted annually in DR Congo, will this year run from February 4-11, 2023. Fête Du Livre de Kinshasa, which English speakers would translate to the Kinshasa Book Fair, has happened in the capital of one of the richest countries on the continent since 2013. It is […]
Mohamedou Ould Slahi Houbeini, the new curator of the African Book Festival Berlin 2023 which runs from August 25-27, has been revealed today. In 2018, many of the leading African writers, poets, and thinkers on the continent and in the diaspora converged on Berlin, Germany for the African Book Festival. It has gone on to […]
We look back at the literary scene in 2022 in the second of a two-part series; in this post, we look at the new books from the continent and the literary festivals we covered. In 2016, we here at James Murua Literary introduced what we called the “Outstanding African Literary Awards” where we gave you […]
The Ake Festival 2022 was hosted in Lagos, Nigeria from November 24 – 26, 2022. Here is a recap of the happenings in one of the continent’s biggest literary extravaganzas. The Ake Festival showed up as a new entrant to the African literary scene in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria in 2013. While festivals will come […]
Le souffle de l’Harmattan Festival will be hosted in N’djamena, Chad from December 14 – 17, 2022. The festival theme is “Witnesses to history, breath of victory.” Le Souffle de l’Harmattan (English: Breath of the Harmattan) was founded during a “cardinal moment for Chadian literature” by Mbernodji Sosthène in 2014. Sosthène is the executive secretary […]
The Nairobi Book Festival, powered by Nuria Books, will be hosted at the MacMillan Library, Nairobi from November 30 – December 3, 2022. In Kenya, like in many African nations, the publishing industry is really a textbook printing outfit that focuses mainly on presenting books for the Kenyan education system. Very few books come out […]
LitFest Harare 2022 is set to be hosted in Harare, Zimbabwe from November 23 – 26, 2022. The festival theme is “We are joy – Celebrating the ties that bind us.” LitFest Harare is a literature festival hosted annually in Harare, Zimbabwean since it was founded by poet and curator Chirikure Chirikure in 2013. You […]
The Gauteng International Book Festival is set to be hosted in Soweto, South Africa on December 11, 2022. The festival theme is “Unlimited Africa.” There is a new festival in the African literary scene going by the name Gauteng International Book Festival. It will be hosted in Soweto, just off the historic Vilakazi Street at […]
The Tottenham Literature Festival 2022 happens at the Bernie Grants Arts Centre, London, UK from November 14 – 20, 2022 The Tottenham Literature Festival was founded by Bernie Grant Arts Centre Artistic Director & CEO Hannah Azieb Pool to celebrate the word and storytelling in all its glorious forms in 2019. It was aimed at […]
The artists who will take part in Ake Arts & Book Festival 2022 which runs in Lagos, Nigeria from November 24-26, 2022 are now known. Guests are asked to register for the festival. The Ake Arts & Book Festival, popularly known as the Ake Festival, has been running in Nigeria since 2012. Lovers of books […]
Futhi Ntshingila’s novel They Got To You Too was awarded the Sharjah International Book Fair Prize 2022 on November 3, 2022. The Sharjah International Book Fair is one of the leading festivals in the Middle East and Africa region. At the opening ceremony, the fair typically awards the best books written over the last year […]
The Lagos Art & Books Festival 2022, popularly known as Labaf, runs in venues in Lagos, Nigeria from November 14-20, 2022. The festival with the theme “Pathways to the Future” is dedicated to Bruce OnoBrakpeya. The Lagos Book & Art Festival is an annual arts festival founded by the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA), a […]
Weltwortreisende 2022 (World Word Travellers), organised by Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Robert Reithofer, was hosted in Graz, Austria from October 20 – 22, 2022. Weltwortreisende (World Word Travellers) or Transnational Literary Days, running for the second year, are not only a crossroads for literature, but also a meeting point for languages and representations of the […]
The Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2022 was hosted in several venues around Kenya from October 8 – 14, 2022. The Kistrech International Poetry Festival was founded to promote poetry and cultural exchange between local and foreign artists by Dr Christopher Okemwa in 2013. The annual festival features spoken-word, rap, song, poetry reading, oral poetry, music […]
