The 2024 Afrolution Festival will be held in Berlin, Germany from June 27-30. Centered on the theme  of “African/-Diasporic Pluriverses I”, the fest is bound to be a great success as guests include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, and more prominent figures.

Afrolution is an interdisciplinary festival with a variety of formats: readings, performances, workshops and polylogic talks, celebrating the diversity and complexity of global African, African-diasporic and Black communities. Organized by German nonprofit organization Each One, Teach One, the festival has hosted many African writers since 2018.

Held in English with translation provided for German and French events, the 2024 edition is led by Afrolution festival director Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard and patroness Tsitsi Dangarembga (2024-2027). This year’s fest is dedicated to Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo and Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé whi recently passed away.

According to Each One Teach One Instagram, this year’s theme relates to the expiring UN Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024) as well as the appreciation of historical pan-African events such as the mega festival FESTAC, which took place in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. The fest will also be a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Each One Teach One (EOTO).

One of the major events includes keynotes by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Justin Hansford, and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. The preeminent African/-Diasporic scholars will kickstart the Afrolution Festival 2024 with a brief trialogic exchange, exploring the festival theme from the vantage points of their respective disciplines and intellectual and geographic positions.

The festival will also have coffee talks, Afrolution’s special conversation format, which takes into account the diverse expertises of our esteemed guests. In the framework of the Coffee Talks, three public intellectuals can take their time to exchange ideas about their respective fields of work or ways of life, to listen intentionally to one another and are free to raise questions that might not be considered in ‘normal’ talk formats.

This year’s Coffee Talkers include Tsitsi Dangarembga, Logan February, Angela Guerreiro, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Justin Hansford, Marcel Jean.Baptiste, Bonaventure Sohn Bejeng Ndikung, and David Scott.

There will also be panels, readings, music, conversations, a beach party, and more fun events held during the four days. Featuring guests from across Africa and the world, the festival is bound to be a big hit.

Go here to access the full program.