The first Asmara Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) will be held in Brussels, Belgium on February 9, 2019, in collaboration with the Afropolitan festival. The festival is the brainchild of Eritrean-Ethiopian author Sulaiman Addonia.
This festival, supported by BOZAR & the Commune of Ixelles, is a new pan-Africanist literary event with feminist principles at its heart.
Programme
With: Saleh Addonia, Chike Frankie Edozien, Meron Estefanos, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Astrid Haerens, Desta Haile, madeleine
The Shapes of Love is inspired by Sulaiman Addonia‘s memories of open compounds in Sudan, where people were welcome to join and gather around Eritrean coffee ceremonies and exchange their personal stories.
The event will discuss LGBTQ characters in books set in African countries. This panel is designed to show solidarity with who
With: Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Amina Jama, Rachida Lamrabet, Maaza Mengiste, Nadifa Mohamed, Minna Salami.
I Create. I am not a Muse, will celebrate six African feminists from all the corners of Africa who are reshaping literature at home & abroad. The spotlight is on the writer as the creator and will showcase how these pioneering women are moving the literary world of Africa and beyond forward with bold, innovative ideas.
This event is organized by The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (in exile), conceived by Sulaiman Addonia, in partnership with Afropolitan Festival. The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (in exile), supported by BOZAR & the Commune of Ixelles, is a new pan-Africanist literary event with feminist principles at its heart.
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE is the founding Publishing Director of The Indigo Press. The former deputy editor of Granta magazine, she was
Amina Jama is a London based Somali-British writer. She was the Roundhouse & BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Words First London finalist, alumni of Barbican Young Poets, co-host of BoxedIN at Boxpark Shoreditch, and Assistant Tutor for the Roundhouse Poetry Collective. Her work explores displacement, dual cultural identity and family. She has been published in The Things I Would Tell You, a Saqi Books anthology, and Rising Stars children’s anthology by Otter-Barry Books. She has been commissioned by the BBC, The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, and the London Mayors Office.
Rachida Lamrabet is a Moroccan-Belgian writer who writes in Dutch. She debuted in 2007 with the novel
Maaza Mengiste's debut novel, Beneath
Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa, Somalia, and studied History and Politics at St. Hilda's College, Oxford University. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. Her second novel, The Orchard of Lost Souls, was published in 2013 and won a Somerset Maugham Prize and the Prix Albert Bernard, and was long-listed for The Dylan Thomas Prize and short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
She writes regularly for The Guardian, The New York Times,
Minna Salami is an author, blogger, social critic and international keynote speaker, and the founder of the multiple award-winning
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