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Organized by the association “WE ART AFRICA//NS”, the FLAM, founded by Mahi Binebine (writer and visual artist), Fatimata Sagna (journalist), Hanane Essaydi (academic) and Younès Ajarraï (cultural entrepreneur), aims to be a author platform bringing together renowned writers from the Continent and the diaspora.
On the menu for this edition are conferences, literary cafés, interviews, book signings, but also programming for the benefit of youth, educational activities as well as interventions in university and school environments, indicate the organizers in a press release. .
And the same source continues that the evenings of the festival will be punctuated by music, readings, storytelling, poetry and cinema, master classes in addition to writing workshops.
This cultural event will devote particular attention to the reactivation and consolidation of the unwavering links that unite Africans in Africa and elsewhere and aims to highlight the human and cultural diversity of the Continent.
Faithful to its tradition of inviting different artistic disciplines in the service of literature, the FLAM has chosen to invite, to illustrate the poster for the 2024 edition, the Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté.
After giving the inaugural lesson of the 2023 edition, the writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, does the honor of this edition by becoming its Honorary President.
“There is a spirit of oasis here in Marrakech. I believe that this is the important element of the culture of this city, of its history. And that’s why I’m so moved that this festival is happening here. Because it has deep meaning. A deep meaning for Morocco, for its history. And a deep meaning for Africa, because it is the African identity which was partly forged in this city”, indicates Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio quoted in the press release.
As in the first edition, literary cafés, readings, stories, signings and evening events will follow one another during the four days of the festival at the Les Etoiles Cultural Center of Jemaâ El Fna and in partner sites for a promising second edition: Palace Es Saadi, University Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P), GEC Marrakech – School of Management, Cadi Ayyad University, high schools, reported the same source.
Likewise, and for the very first time in Africa, a Giant Dictation will be organized in an emblematic square of the city and should bring together hundreds of young people who will have participated in writing workshops and will also be open to all upon registration. It will be given in Arabic, French and English, which constitutes a world first.
The 2023 edition of FLAM, recalls the same source, was a great success with the participation of around forty writers and intellectuals from 25 countries. It attracted more than 8,000 participants and was followed by more than 20,000 people live and streaming.
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