The Pa Gya! Literary Festival is set to happen at the Goethe Institut in Accra, Ghana from October 20-22, 2017. It’s been a busy time in the Ghana literary scene in recent times with many things happening from festivals like the Ghana International Book Fair and the Nkabom Literary Festival as well as the Ghana […]
The second edition of the Rutanang Book Fair 2017 hosted on May 2-4 will be an exclusively online affair. The Rutanang Book Fair 2016 opened with a blast in the South African town of Tlokwe from April 25-27. It was amazing display of the written word with some of the more well-known names in the […]
The 20th Time of the Writer International Festival set to take place in Durban, South Africa from 13 – 18 March 2017. The Festival theme is “The Past Paving the Future.” The Festival, hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) within UKZN’s College of Humanities, will feature some of the South Africa’s most prolific […]
Sabata-Mpho Mokae gave the Sol Plaatje Lecture at the Rutanang Book Fair on 27th April 2016 in Potchefstroom, South Africa. A man goes to appeal to the crown to the better nature of the British Empire because the land of his people has been taken away in the worst way possible in 1914. He stays […]
Decolonising literature is the order of the day in South Africa and this is the theme of the Rutanang Book Fair 2016 next week, 25-27th April, in Tlokwe. There promises to be a large number of events at the book fair, organized by Tlokwe-based media and events company Red Dune, geared towards this theme next […]
The first annual Rutanang Book Fair will be held in Tlokwe, South Africa on 25 – 27 April 2016; the theme is Decolonising Literature. It looks like our African Literary Festivals have been coming thick and fast in 2016. With the ending Alexandra Book Fair ending this weekend there is another book fair on the horizon […]
It was all happening in Maseru, Lesotho as the Ba re e ne re Literature Festival rolled into town from 5th – 6th December 2015. Translated from the Sesotho language, the words “Ba re e ne re” mean, “They say it was said that…”. This phrase is a Basotho equivalent of “Once upon a time…” […]
