Category: Events

Now in its 8th year, Ake Arts & Book Festival has brought over 700 artists, writers, poets, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, actors, filmmakers and thinkers together to dialogue and celebrate creativity on the African continent through panel discussions, art exhibitions, workshops, storytelling, book chats, poetry performances, a concert, stage play and unforgettable films. I will be doing...

A discussion on African representation in education, art, and literature. To mark the paperback release of the pivotal anthology New Daughters of Africa, contributors Anni Domingo, Ade Solanke, Goretti Kyomeuhendo, and Zukiswa Wanner join Lavinya Stennett to discuss their perspectives on African representation in education, art, and literature. We will also hear readings from the anthology...

I have started a new series with Goethe Namibia called Virtually Yours which is a series of online discussions – Virtual Gatherings – with contemporary authors from Africa. Virtually Yours aims to create an online platform for avid readers, writers, academics, publishers, agents, and anyone else interested in literature by writers from Africa. The series of online discussions will be held...

I am one of the featured speakers at this year’s South African Book Fair which runs from September 11-13, 2020. Join me at the following sessions. Saturday, September 12, 2020 Collecting From Afar: Stories Full Of Home How do perceptions change and how are stories shaped when you leave home? Join writers Sisonke Msimang (Always Another Country), Deon Maas (Witboy In Berlin), Niq Mhlongo,...

Author Susan Abulhawa will participate in a live virtual discussion of her book “Against the Loveless World” with me at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 26. To register to be in the audience, go to lewes.lib.de.us. “Against the Loveless World” will be for sale at Browseabout Books and available to borrow through the Delaware Library system.