Main Stage

Winding down the 2026 edition with reflections, thanks and good music.

A frank conversation about how maternal figures materialize in fiction and life and the gray areas between truth and reverence with 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature winner and poet, Safiya Sinclair

Exploring new paths to storytelling across literature, poetry, film and visual art with Nigerian writer, poet and performer, Wana Udobang

Alain Mabanckou grew up in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, and studied law in Brazzaville and Paris.

Celebrating the necessity and philosophies underpinning the curatorial strategies behind Ake, a globally-acclaimed festival with Director Lola Shoneyin

A discussion on creative documentary storytelling with celebrated Senegalese filmmaker, Moussa Sene Absa and Kenya-based filmmaking duo, Maia Lekow and Chris King.

Kenyan essayist and political analyst, Nanjala Nyabola; British-Nigerian poet and playwright, Inua Ellams;