Chigozie Obioma among top authors to attend the Macondo Literary Festival

Macondo Book Society in collaboration with eKitabu has announced that acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma will be among the distinguished authorsattending the fourth edition of the Macondo Literary Festival to take place from September20-22, 2024 at the Kenya Cultural Centre in Nairobi, Kenya.

The theme for this year’s Festival, “The Sea is History,” is inspired by a poem of the same name by Caribbean Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. While the 2023 festival celebrated literature of all of the African continent’s linguistic currents—hosting authors who write in English, Portuguese, French, and Arabic—the 2024 edition will extend the festival’s geographic reach to the spheres of the Swahili Sea and the Indian Ocean. “The Sea is History” pays tribute to this oceanic region’s historical connections with Africa that exist in story, art, technology, cultural memories, and society. From inception, Macondo Literary Festival’s anchor was and is African histories and futures from African perspectives in literature.