Past Festivals
Chronicles & Currents (2025)
A literary festival on African histories and futures that showcases, together with representatives from the Africa writing language zones, authors of African descent from the South American and Caribbean worlds - a diaspora that is a living archive of how memory defies erasure.
The Sea is History (2024)
A literary festival on African histories and futures with authors from Africa’s Arab, English, French and Portuguese writing language zones in conversation with writers from the Indian Ocean worlds. This year’s geographical extension pays tribute to the historical ties between the two regions. The festival title refers to Derek Walcott’s poem “The Sea is History.”
Disrupting Home (2023)
A literary festival on African histories and futures that, alongside authors from English, French and Portuguese writing language zones of Africa, featured writers from the Arab-writing parts of the continent in conversations across perceived limitations, exploring new definitions of “home.”
The Future of Memories (2022)
Our first literary festival on African histories and futures. We extended our geographical reach to include Francophone African writers in conversation with Anglophone and Lusophone African authors across and beyond the limits of language.
Histories, Stories, Worlds & Words (2019)
The inaugural Macondo Literary Festival on African histories featured in fictional and non-fictional works, bringing together, for the first time on the continent, Anglophone and Lusophone African writers in conversation.