Date 2024 Height (cm) 21 Length (cm) 13 Depth (cm) 3 Weight (g) 400 Materials and Techniques Black ink pen, acrylic paint, photo and collaged paper. Subject/Description This notebook documents the evolution of an idea, nurtured by a lifelong love of literature, to have an annual literary gathering in the city we live in, Nairobi. What started as a spur of the moment excitement turned into a growing community of literary enthusiasts who engage with their continent’s histories through literature - learning, dreaming, building futures that are founded in understanding the past.
The Macondo Book Society, a non-profit organization in Kenya, organizes regular literary festivals and other events that promote literature and authors of and from Africa beyond linguistic borders, amplifies and showcases the rich diversity of literature from and of Africa, and provides a public platform to initiate and encourage, through literature, the engagement of a wider public with Africa’s histories and its significance for the present and future of the continent as a means of societal growth. Archival Fund Creativity Pioneers Personal data Nairobi, Kenya