2025 Programme

Don’t miss this gathering of the best international and local voices in Spoken Word and page poetry. Followed by a DJ set.

Creating complex portraits of womanhood has been a through line across the works of award-winning authors Leila Slimani, a Franco-Moroccan author and journalist, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, whose debut novel “When We Were Birds” won the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and, Goretti Kyomuhendo, one of Uganda’s leading novelists and founding member of Ugandan Women Writers’ Association, FEMWRITE.

Riding the Storm: The Untold Story of Africa’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Green Bunk Stage Sat, 28th June4:00pm – 5:00pm Panelists: […]

Africa Is a Country began as a blog challenging Western media clichés. Fifteen years on, it has grown into a platform for critical writing, debate, and imagination across Africa and the diaspora.

Powerhouses in ecological activism and sustainable art examine the interconnectedness of things and how the roadmap to reversing our ecological reality always existed.

Why was it not possible to transform the momentum of the June-July protests into a political movement with a vision and strategy? As the country marks one year since the Gen-Z revolution, what can we learn from the events of that time and what unfolded after?

Curious to know what the path to publishing entails? Three emerging Kenyan authors speak on their journeys so far. Dennis Mugaa won the 2022 Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest and published a debut short story collection, “Half Portraits Under Water”