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By: abf-admin On: 10. Februar 2020

The festival takes place from April 16th to 18th 2021 in Berlin, on January 28th in Leipzig and January 30th in Munich.

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The African Book Festival Berlin is an initiative for more diversity in Berlin’s and Germany’s cultural and literary scene. InterKontinental also runs a bookstore specialized on African literature in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

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Happy Publication Day, @sharondoduaotoo! Heute is

Happy Publication Day, @sharondoduaotoo!

Heute ist ein aufregender Tag für die deutschsprachige Literatur. Bachmann-Preisträgerin Sharon Dodua Otoo veröffentlicht ihren ersten Roman, Adas Raum.

Sharon Dodua Otoos Mut und ihre Lust zu erzählen, ihre Neugier, die Gegenwart zu verstehen, machen atemlos. In ihrer Welt hängt alles am seidenen Faden, es droht zu fallen, und doch bleibt es auf wundersame Weise in der Schwebe.

So wie Ada, um die sich Otoos erster Roman dreht. Ada ist nicht eine, sondern viele Frauen: In Schleifen bewegt sie sich von Ghana nach England, um schließlich in Berlin zu landen. Sie ist aber auch alle Frauen, denn die Schleifen transportieren sie von einem Jahrhundert zum nächsten. So erlebt sie das Elend, aber auch das Glück, Frau zu sein, sie ist Opfer, leistet Widerstand und kämpft für ihre Unabhängigkeit.

Wie immer erhältlich auf www.interkontinental.org

New Book Alert! 🚨 An alien artifact turns a y

New Book Alert! 🚨

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor

“She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own.”

The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa��—a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past.

Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks—alone, except for her fox companion—searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers.

But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion?

Come by our shop or order online: www.InterKontinental.org

#remotecontrol #bookstagram #afrofuturism #newbookalert🚨

NEW BOOK ALERT! 🚨 Sixteen-year-old Deka lives i

NEW BOOK ALERT! 🚨 Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.

But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.

Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki–near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire’s greatest threat.

Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she’s ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be–not even Deka herself.

Come by or get your copy online: https://www.interkontinental.org/shop/item/9780593375488/the-gilded-ones-von-namina-forna-paperback

What a treat! Books Born From Songs streamed live

What a treat! Books Born From Songs streamed live from two German. Curator @kalafepalanga brought together 10 writers who inspired us with their love for music and literature, @totysamed who warmed our soul with live music and @_mosesleo and Martha Fessehatzion who let us dive deep into the texts with outstanding readings of the novels discussed.

We badly missed you, our audience, at the venues but thank you very much for coming online and blessing the artists and the whole team with your many positive comments and feedback.

The African Book Festival will return on 27-29th May for the Berlin edition. So mark your calendars!

Until then, stay happy, healthy and bookish.

📷 @kandziora_photo

#ABF2021 #africanbookfestival #kalafepalanga #angola #lusophone #literature #bookstagram #music #inlovewithbooks #bookish #happy #healthy #Thankyou #danke #berlin #interkontinental

What a treat! Books Born From Songs streamed live

What a treat! Books Born From Songs streamed live from two German cities yesterday and the day before. Curator @kalafepalanga brought together 10 writers who inspired us with their love for music and literature, @totysamed who warmed our soul with live music and @_mosesleo and Martha Fessehatzion who let us dive deep into the texts with outstanding readings of the novels discussed.

We badly missed you, our audience, at the venues but thank you very much for coming online and blessing the artists and the whole team with your many positive comments and feedback.

The African Book Festival will return on 27-29th May for the Berlin edition. So mark your calendars!

Until then, stay happy, healthy and bookish.

📷 @kandziora_photo

#ABF2021 #africanbookfestival #kalafepalanga #angola #lusophone #literature #bookstagram #music #inlovewithbooks #bookish #happy #healthy #Thankyou #danke #berlin #interkontinental

READING @karlacolorno speaks to @johnymodern abou

READING
@karlacolorno speaks to @johnymodern about his acclaimed book Afropean. The conversation is part of the @literaturhausberlin23 Li-Be digital series, takes place in English and is streamed via youtube.

SUN 31st Jan, 7pm

Johny Pitts »Afropäisch – Eine Reise durch das schwarze Europa«
So 31.1. 19:00 Uhr
Der Autor im Gespräch mit Karla Kutzner

»Und wo kommst du eigentlich her?« Viele schwarze Europäer kennen diese Frage, denn in den Köpfen mancher ist das noch immer ein Gegensatz – Schwarz sein und Europäer sein. Dabei gibt es längst eine gelebte afropäische Kultur. Um sie zu erkunden, bereist Johny Pitts die Metropolen des Kontinents. In Paris folgt er den Spuren James Baldwins, in Berlin trifft er ghanaische Rastafarians, in Moskau besucht er die einstige Patrice-Lumumba-Universität. Nicht nur in französischen Banlieues und Favelas am Rande Lissabons wird deutlich, dass Europas multikulturelle Gegenwart nach wie vor von seiner kolonialen Vergangenheit gezeichnet ist. Rassismus und Armut sind Teil des Alltags vieler Schwarzer Europäer.

In englischer Sprache

#afropean
#afropäisch #johnypitts
#interkontinental #lesung #imgespräch #literatur #mustreadbooks #berlin #europa #rassismus #moskau #lisbon #multikulturell #jamesbaldwin

We´re getting ready for tonight, are you? Please

We´re getting ready for tonight, are you?
Please register until 7pm in order to get the link and login for the 2nd part of the #ABF2021 event VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS curated by @kalaf and live from Munich @LithausMUC

Find the details on where to get your login on africanbookfestival.de or our twitter handle.

Please dont forget to register for part two of VOI

Please dont forget to register for part two of VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS. The event is free of charge but you need a ticket to the stream and a log in code. Please visit Africanbookfestival.de for more details.
ABF2021 #München #bookstagram #instabooks
#bookish #inlovewithbooks

Dankeschön to Mukoma wa Ngugi for being part of T

Dankeschön to Mukoma wa Ngugi for being part of The African Book Festival 2021 and sharing with us the story of Unbury Our Dead With Song.

It has been a wonderful, entertaining evening with books and music, curated by Kalaf Epalanga.

In case you missed it, go to our youtube channel where you can still enjoy the whole event.

https://youtu.be/dj8nWerYJTc

#ABF #africanbookfestival #Kenya #literature #books #music #interkontinental #Danke #Thankyou

Dankeschön to Chimeka Garricks for being part of

Dankeschön to Chimeka Garricks for being part of The African Book Festival 2021 and sharing the story of A Broken People's Playlist.

It has been a wonderful entertainment with books and music, curated by Kalaf Epalanga.

In case you missed it, go to our youtube chanel where you can still enjoy the whole event.

https://youtu.be/dj8nWerYJTc

#ABF2021 #africanbookfestival #Thankyou #danke #nigeria #literature #naija #litfest #interkontinental

Dankeschön to Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda f

Dankeschön to Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda for being part of The African Book Festival 2021 and sharing with us the story of No Be From Hia.

It has been a wonderful, entertaining evening with books and music, curated by Kalaf Epalanga.

In case you missed it, go to our youtube channel where you can still enjoy the whole event.

https://youtu.be/dj8nWerYJTc

#ABF #africanbookfestival #nigeria #sambia #literature #books #music #interkontinental #Danke #Thankyou

Dankeschön to Zukiswa Wanner for being part of Th

Dankeschön to Zukiswa Wanner for being part of The African Book Festival 2021 and sharing with us the story of Men of the South.

It has been a wonderful, entertaining evening with books and music, curated by Kalaf Epalanga.

In case you missed it, go to our youtube channel where you can still enjoy the whole event.

https://youtu.be/dj8nWerYJTc

#ABF #africanbookfestival #southafrica #literature #books #music #interkontinental #Danke #Thankyou

Dankeschön to Remy Ngamije for being part of The

Dankeschön to Remy Ngamije for being part of The African Book Festival 2021 and sharing with us the story of The Eternal Audience Of One.

It has been a wonderful, entertaining evening with books and music, curated by Kalaf Epalanga.

In case you missed it, go to our youtube channel where you can still enjoy the whole event.

https://youtu.be/dj8nWerYJTc

#ABF #africanbookfestival #Namibia #literature #books #music #interkontinental #Danke #Thankyou

Dankeschön to Fiston Mwanza Mujila for being part

Dankeschön to Fiston Mwanza Mujila for being part of The African Book Festival 2021 and sharing with us the story of Tram 83.

It has been a wonderful, entertaining evening with books and music, curated by Kalaf Epalanga.

In case you missed it, go to our youtube channel where you can still enjoy the whole event.

https://youtu.be/dj8nWerYJTc

#ABF #africanbookfestival #kongodrc #literature #books #music #interkontinental

STARTING TODAY! VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS

STARTING TODAY!
VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS

Thursday and Friday 8pm GMT+1

an African Book Festival event curated by @kalafepalanga

For the links to the livestream go to africanbookfestival.de

#dontmissthis #ABF2021 #africanbookfestival
#literature #bookstagram #instabooks #igread #africanlit #angola

VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS

VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS
an African Book Festival event curated by @kalafepalanga
Happening tomorrow and Friday. For the links to the livestream go to africanbookfestival.de
#dontmissthis #ABF2021

VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS

VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING - BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS
an African Book Festival event curated by @kalafepalanga
Happening tomorrow and Friday. For the links to the livestream go to africanbookfestival.de
#dontmissthis #ABF2021

#Repost @nansenmag ・・・ Looking forward to s

#Repost @nansenmag
・・・
Looking forward to stepping back into KALAF's world later this week with Voices from the Beginning, a very special set of interconnected literary and music performances. Curated by @kalafepalanga, streaming online @ikontinental, Thursday's programme will feature performances in English from the Anglo-African and African diaspora, while Friday will focus on the Lusophone world.

AFRICAN BOOK FESTIVAL #ABF2021 »VOICES FROM THE

AFRICAN BOOK FESTIVAL
#ABF2021

»VOICES FROM THE BEGINNING – BOOKS BORN FROM SONGS // BÜCHER, ERSTANDEN AUS MUSIK«

EINE LITERARISCH-MUSIKALISCHE PERFORMANCE

Am DONNERSTAG 28.1.2021 & FREITAG 29.1.2021 // um 20 Uhr

Im Grassi Museum Leipzig & Literaturhaus München // Live-Stream kostenlos.
Mehr info unter Africanbookfestival.de

#happyweekend #booklovers #africanlit #books #music #Live-Stream #München #Leipzig #angola #Vorfreude #instabooks

The African Book Festival 2021 is coming closer. S

The African Book Festival 2021 is coming closer. Streamed live from Grassi Museum in Leipzig and Literaturhaus Munich, on the 28th and 29th of January at 8pm.

This event is free and the links are on africanbookfestival.de

“African Voices – Books that are born out of songs”

"The ancient sung poem was once a part of magic. It is still so today in Africa, where music was and will always be an extension of the individual and their words. The authors gathered at the online event travel through different literary universes. Their novels breathe music, draw emotional maps of places in constant transformation. The Africas they bring us were born and organized out of poetic insurrections. In fact, it all started with poetry, so let us learn how to listen to it in prose or weaved in song chords."

Kalaf Epalanga, Curator
@kalafepalanga

https://africanbookfestival.de/

#africanbookfestival #abf2021 #livestream
#Leipzig #munich #bookstagram #africanlit #inlovewithbooks #angola #kalafepalanga #january #africanbooks #africanwriters #music #books #interkontinental

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Titled Voices From the Beginning – Books Born From Songs the author of Também os brancos sabem dançar – an autobiographically inspired fictionalised biography of Kuduro – explores the manifold entanglements of music and literature. The conversations with the guests about their works are accompanied by their musical inspirations. In addition the actors Martha Fessehatzion and Moses Leo will perform staged readings of passages of the texts in question.

Guests:

José Eduardo Agualusa [Angola | Mozambique]
acclaimed Angolan writer / journalist, host of the RTP Africa programme A Hora das Cigarras on African music and Poetry

Ondjaki [Angola | Brazil]
filmmaker and witer of novels, short stories and childrens literature and music enthusiast

Telma Tvon [Angola | Portugal]
HipHop artist and author of the novel Um preto muito português

Yara Monteiro [Angola | Portugal | Brazil]
writer and visual artist

and

Toty Sa’Med [Angola]singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, one of the leading artists of the New Angolan Music scene. His influences range from Psychedelic Rock to Jazz, from Soul to Semba—the prototypical genre at the heart of modern Angolan music.

Stay tuned for the main events of the African Book Festival 2021 in Berlin 27th-29th May 2021: www.africanbookfestival.de

African Book Festival 2021 - Voices from the Beginning | München

YouTube Video UCEQV9g9CU9y6ARpdI9X2AhA_teRQThllU4o

Titled Voices From the Beginning – Books Born From Songs the author of Também os brancos sabem dançar – an autobiographically inspired fictionalised biography of Kuduro – explores the manifold entanglements of music and literature. The conversations with the guests about their works are accompanied by their musical inspirations. In addition the actors Martha Fessehatzion and Moses Leo will perform staged readings of passages of the texts in question.

Guests:

Chimeka Garricks [Nigeria]
Author of A Broken People’s Playlist, a collection of short stories based on music

Fiston Mwanza Mujila [DRC | Austria]
His novel Tram 83 uses the rhythms of jazz to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village

Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ [Kenya | USA]
on his forthcoming novel about four Ethiopian musicians Unbury Our Dead With Song

Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda [Zambia | Nigeria | Jamaica | UK]
Author of No Be From Hia Zambia-based creative entrpreneur

Rémy Ngamije [Rwanda | Namibia]
author of the novel The Eternal Audience of One (forthcoming) and editor of the literary magazine DOEK!

and

Zukiswa Wanner [Zambia | South Africa | Kenya]
Author of London Cape Town Joburg, publisher, editor and organiser of the online festival AfrolitSansFronitères

Watch out for the main events of the African Book Festival 2021 in Berlin from 27th-29th May 2021: www.africanbookfestival.de

African Book Festival 2021 - Voices From the Beginning | Leipzig

YouTube Video UCEQV9g9CU9y6ARpdI9X2AhA_dj8nWerYJTc

Am 14. November 2020 stellte Flora Veit-Wild im Gespräch mit Julius Heinicke (Professor für Kulturpolitik an der Universität Hildesheim) ihr jüngst bei Jacana Media erschienenes Buch They Called You Dambudzo vor.Die emeritierte Professorin für afrikanische Literaturen an der Humboldt-Universität Berlin setzt mit ihren Memoiren dem früh verstorbenen simbabwischen Schriftsteller Dambudzo Marechera ein Denkmal. Dabei nimmt die sehr persönliche und intime Beziehung der beiden einen zentralen Platz ein.

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On 14 November 2020, Flora Veit-Wild presented her book They Called You Dambudzo, recently published by Jacana Media, in conversation with Julius Heinicke (Professor of Cultural Politics at the University of Hildesheim).With her memoir, the emeritus professor for African Literatures at the Humboldt University Berlin pays tribute to the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, who died at an early age. The very personal and intimate relationship between the two occupies a central place in the book.

About the book

This book is a memoir with a 'double heartbeat'. At its centre is the author's relationship with the late Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera, whose award-winning book The House of Hunger marked him as a powerful, disruptive, perhaps prophetic voice in African literature. Flora Veit-Wild is internationally recognised for her significant contribution to preserving Marechera's legacy. What is less known is that they had an intense, personal and sexual relationship. This memoir explores this: the couple's first encounter in 1983, amidst the euphoria of the newly independent Zimbabwe; the tumultuous months when the homeless writer moved in with his lover and her family; the bouts of creativity once he had his own flat followed by feelings of abandonment; the increasing despair about a love affair that could not stand up against reality.; and the illness of the writer and his death of HIV-related pneumonia in August 1987. What follows are the struggles Flora went through once Dambudzo had died. On the one hand, she became the custodian of his life and work, on the other she had to live with her own HIV infection and the ensuing threats to her health.

Book Launch "They Called You Dambudzo" | Flora Veit-Wild im Gespräch mit Julius Heinicke

YouTube Video UCEQV9g9CU9y6ARpdI9X2AhA_Xwt1o7kMl9o

Siphiwe Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean writer, scholar and filmmaker. Her debut novel, 'The Theory of Flight', was published by Penguin Random House (SA) in 2018. She has just finished writing her second novel 'The History of Man'. She is a recipient of a 2018 Morland Scholarship and is currently working on her third novel, 'The Murder of Emil Coetzee'. She holds a PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University.

Tête-à-Tête with Siphiwe Ndlovu moderated by Marlene Schneider #ABF 2019

YouTube Video VVVFUVY5ZzlDVTl5NkFScGRJOVgyQWhBLmRzb0JPQ3pRb0FN

Emmanuel Sigauke has been published in poetry and fiction anthologies, and his collection of short stories, "Mukoma's Marriage and other Stories", was a finalist in the 2015 NAMA awards, Zimbabwe.

Tête-à-Tête with Emmanuel Sigauke moderated by Nora Chirikure #ABF2019

YouTube Video VVVFUVY5ZzlDVTl5NkFScGRJOVgyQWhBLndQNVg0QVE5REJN

Tsitsi Dangarembga from Zimbabwe is an internationally known filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist and has been awarded numerous prizes. She has published her debut novel "Nervous Conditions" in 1988, at the age of 25. The novel has become an absolute classic and has been translated into various languages. It was listed on the May 2018 list of 100 stories that shaped the world by BBC. Her latest novel "This mournable Body" was just released last year.

Tête-à-Tête with Tsitsi Dangarembga moderated by Flora Veit Wild #ABF2019

YouTube Video VVVFUVY5ZzlDVTl5NkFScGRJOVgyQWhBLmVhbG5MOFJTSEsw

Tête-à-Tête session with the author of "The January Children" (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), which received the 2016 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and a 2018 Arab American Book Award. Safia Elhillo is co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me (Haymarket Books, 2019) and was listed in Forbes Africa’s 2018 “30 Under 30.”

Moderated by Nick Makoha
Presented by Wasafiri

© InterKontinental

Tête-à-Tête with Safia Elhillo | moderated by Nick Makoha #ABF2019

YouTube Video VVVFUVY5ZzlDVTl5NkFScGRJOVgyQWhBLjdpREVobVFOTmlF

Tête-à-Tête session with the author of "House Of Stone" (Atlantic Books, 2018). Moderated by Venice Trommer (InterKontinental).

This session was part of the AFRICAN BOOK FESTIVAL BERLIN 2019.

Tête-à-Tête with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma #ABF2019

YouTube Video VVVFUVY5ZzlDVTl5NkFScGRJOVgyQWhBLlg5OVk1d2NoUlVB

"Writing in Migration", Berlin´s very first African Book Festival took place in 2018. Curated by Nigerian-German poet and author Olumide Popoola, more than 40 of the most popular African and/or African-diasporic writers and artists came together to speak abouth their craft.
Here: Curator Olumide Popoola in Conversation with Headliner and acclaimed Author and Poet Chris Abani (26th April 2018)

(Urheber Thabo Thindi)

Olumide Popoola and Chris Abani | African Book Festival 2018

YouTube Video UCEQV9g9CU9y6ARpdI9X2AhA_uZsXq4xWc5E

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