The Macondo Literary Festival is a creation of the Macondo Book Society, founded by author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor and journalist Anja Bengelstorff.
The name comes from “Macondo,” the fictional place where magical things happen in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombian Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
It was aimed at initiating and encouraging the engagement of a wider public with literature and its creators as a means of societal growth.
The 2023 edition is coming with the dates being announced in March. The promise was of a pan-African festival with authors from all parts of the continent: The Arab, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish writing language zones in conversation across perceived limitations, barriers, and silos. It would all run under the theme “disrupting home.”
Over the weekend, organisers announced an exciting lineup of guests from Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, South Africa, Togo, Sudan, Angola, Sierra Leone, the UK, Germany, Italy, and Morocco.
Those scheduled to walk the stage at the iconic Kenya National Theatre are Aminatta Forna, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Leila Aboulela, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kossi Komla-Ebri, Masande Ntshanga, Kalaf Epalanga, Hemley Boum, and Youssef Fadel.
We expect more revelations on the program from the team but we encourage that you lock those dates in ladies and gentlemen. And transren. With that line up, a good time is promised. Tickets can be accessed from KenyaBuzz.com.
