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Rutanang Book Fair 2016: Images and videos from the festival

The Rutanang Book Fair happened from 25-27 April 2016 in in Potchefstroom, South Africa and featured leading South African writers, poets, film personalities, singers and more. Feast your eyes on some of the images and videos that we were able to capture from the one day of the festival that we attended.

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Joe Khamisi’s The Wretched Africans book launch- images and videos

Journalist, diplomat and Member of Parliament Joe Khamisi launched his third book The Wretched Africans at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi on 7th April 2016. The Wretched Africans is a historical narrative about slavery in the nineteenth century. Here are images and videos from the event.  

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Sights from the Lagos Book and Arts Fair #LABAF2015

It’s been an amazing weekend are at the Lagos Book and Arts Fair popularly known as Labaf. The events have been happening at the Freedom Park, The British Council and the National Theatre. Here are some pictures of the happenings in Lagos.  

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YouTube Videos from the Storymoja Festival 2015

So I have finally uploaded all the videos that I took at the Storymoja Festival 2015 that happened this month. The videos were taken over a two day period on the Saturday and Saturday with a Samsung J7 which I am still learning how to use. Therefore the quality of the videos isn’t world class […]

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Sights from the Nairobi International Book Fair 2015

So the Nairobi International Book Fair 2015 ended yesterday at the Sarit Centre in Nairobi. It was a few days of literary goodness. The fair is a fair. This one is dedicated to those who want to know what books are out there from our Kenyan publishers and those who come from further afield. Here […]

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Storymoja Festival 2015: Images from the event

The Storymoja Festival ended this Sunday with many pleased people in Nairobi. As is tradition now on this blog I can’t go without giving you some images from the festival. I used a new phone, at least to me, the Samsung J7 and I have to say it was quite a learning process. I know […]

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Images from the Malawi Story Club’s International literary session

This past month the The Story Club of Malawi hosted an international literary session at the Crossroad Hotel’s auditorium in Lilongwe. The evening included author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga who most famous for her book Nervous Conditions and her movie Neria. It also included Elson Kambalu a visual artist, curator and gallery owner most famous […]

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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos

Here are some images and video from day five of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone. Yusuf Serunkuma moderates Chuma Nwokolo, Okey Ndibe, Dr Mpalive Msiska and Prof Niyi Osundare The Somaliland Writers Association panel Joe Addo They have a Frantz Fanon university in Hargeisa

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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 6 images and videos

Here are some images and video from day six of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.

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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 6 images and videos

Here are some images and video from day six of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.        

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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 5 images and videos

Here are some images and video from day five of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.    

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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 2 images

Here are some images from the second day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.

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Hargeysa International Book Fair: Day 1 images

Here are some images from the first day of the Haregysa International Book Fair 2015 taken by my trusty camera phone.  

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Images from the Storymoja Careerpedia 2015

As earlier mentioned there was a huge festival in Nakuru which happened last weekend that involved writers and other artists called Storymoja Careerpedia. Here are some of the images from this festival courtesy of our friends from Storymoja.  

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Images from the Time of the Writer 2015 festival

So Time of the Writer was well received by the people who enjoyed the events in Durban. Here are images from the event from the organisers. All photos were taken by Gerald Mthembu.