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The return of East Africa's biggest literary festival

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah from Tanzania. (David Gichuru/Standard)

East Africa's biggest literary festival, the Macondo Literary Festival, is set to make a comeback at the end of the month.

This second edition, dubbed 'The Future of Memories', will bring together Brazilian, Anglophone (English-speaking), Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) and Francophone (French-speaking) African writers in conversation across and beyond the limits of language.

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