First launched in 2025 under the theme ‘Our Love, Our Stories’, Afro RomCon was founded to celebrate African romance across print and screen. It sits at the intersection of literature and film, spotlighting romance as a serious and expansive genre while challenging long-standing Western stereotypes about Africa. 

This year’s theme, Love as Resistance, expands that vision. It asks what it means to choose love in a world where crisis is often the dominant lens through which Africa is seen. In contexts where African identities are frequently filtered through political instability, war, hunger, and lack, choosing to tell love stories becomes a radical act of narrative refusal. As Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “single story” reminds us, the danger is not that these stories are untrue, but that they are incomplete. Afro RomCon 2026 responds by insisting on that completeness, on tenderness, romance, longing, and everyday human joy.

Afro RomCon 2026 holds on June 27 at The Good House, Ikeja. The event will also feature the announcement of the Afro RomCon Literary Prize, sponsored by Masobe Books. This year’s lineup includes Tomilola Coco Adeyemo, author of Efun’s Jazz and A Nollywood Christmas; Timendu Aghahowa, author of The Bishop’s Prodigal Daughter; Chinasa Anaele, author of Three is a Crowd; Deborah Kira, author of The Finest Things; Ufuoma Bakporhe, writer of Two Hearts One Soul (film); Aminat Sanni Kamal, author of Rebound; Ameenat Adebajo, content creator; and Angel Nduku-Nwosu, journalist. Also featured are members of the Mic and Mind poetry community, alongside performances from poets Mayowa Fagbure, Abisola Junaid, and Brcwn.

Tickets are still on sale.