AFRICAN LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Danish Pen, Aarhus University, and Aarhus Litteraturcenter invite you to the African literature festival ‘Dialogue with Africa’ taking place in Aarhus at Godsbanen the 11^th – 14^th of October 2024 where African authors can provide the Danish public with new insights through literature. At the festival, you get to hear many intriguing lectures, debates, and readings with Ghanaian, Ugandan, Kenyan, and Danish authors and researchers. The festival explores parts of the contemporary African literary scene through three themes: ‘Debates in African Literature Right Now’, ‘Africa’s Diverse Languages’, ‘Writers in Exile’, and ‘Representing slavery in Ghana’.

DIALOGUE WITH AFRICA – 12/10 2024

Today’s festival programme focuses on creating dialogues through literature as a way forward for new collaborations and better conditions for writers, including the freedom to express oneself feely.

PROGRAMME

10:00 Opening and welcome by Danish PEN.

10:10 Debates in African Literature Right Now / Billy Kahora, author, editor

10:40 Africa’s Diverse Languages / Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, writer, journalist, and lawyer.

11:10 Panel discussion: Dialogue through literature

11:45 Break.

12:00 Readings of selected works by Billy Kahora, Thomas Boberg, Helen Yitah, and Kakwenza Rukirabashaija.

12:30 Lunch break and book exhibitions (food can be bought at Godsbanen).

13:30 Writers in Exile /Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen, writer

14:00 Panel discussion: Conditions for authors at home and abroad

14:45 Readings by Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen, Billy Kahora, Thomas Boberg, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, Gabriel Awuah Mainoo/Anne Green Munk, and Kofi Anyidoho.

15:30 Thank you for today.

Language: English

See the full festival programme and read more about the authors and researchers at litteraturen.nu (click ‘Læs mere her’).