Swahili Literary Festival 2021: Celebrating Women

The 3rd annual Swahili Literary Festival will explore Woman and her immense role in Swahili Heritage exemplified in traditional and modern practices.

Discourses will vary from the role of iconic women in the Swahili coast to the place of Woman in contemporary literature, from conversation with young women in the Swahili coast whose works have received global appreciation to explorative talks on the propulsive nature of women-specific spaces like vugo and their active role in literature.

This year the festival will travel virtually across borders, largely prompted by the global appreciation of Kiswahili, and will engage in literary translation discourses that will open work in Kiswahili for further translations and global readership.

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