Kenyan festival to explore identity and history

  Macondo Literary Festival, debuting in Kenya, is set to explore identity and history among English and Portuguese-speaking artists and audiences in Kenya. The event is taking place at the auditorium of the Kenya National Theatre (KNT) from September 27 to 29 2019.  Themed ‘Reimagining African Histories Through Literature,’ it will raise questions about what […]

 

Macondo Literary Festival, debuting in Kenya, is set to explore identity and history among English and Portuguese-speaking artists and audiences in Kenya.

The event is taking place at the auditorium of the Kenya National Theatre (KNT) from September 27 to 29 2019.  Themed ‘Reimagining African Histories Through Literature,’ it will raise questions about what the two regions have in common, what unites and separates them, and how Africa’s history is told and retold.

Co-founder of the festival and award-winning Kenyan writer, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, said “I sense it is a great window for our continent, in its widest sense, to employ its imagination to summon a powerful future, to anticipate histories. This cannot happen without creative conversations across the artificial yet seemingly entrenched boundaries and borders which have kept us apart from each other. Nairobi, as a place for diverse energies and peoples to converge is the perfect Point Zero for just such an enterprise.”

Guest authors include Nigeria’s Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, author of ‘Season of Crimson Blossoms,’ Angola’s Ondjaki, Brazil’s Geovani Martins and several more.