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Founded by Eritrean-Ethiopian author Sulaiman Addonia, the Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) is a new pan-African literary event with feminist principles at its heart. This festival aims to be a home for ideas that migrate freely and boldly in borderless literary landscapes. This will be a festival that reflects and celebrates our societies not as censored but as they exist in reality, with all their diversity, trouble and beauty. In collaboration with BOZAR, in the framework of the Afropolitan Festival 08-10- FEB. ’19, and supported by the Commune of Ixelle and Bib Sans Souci, it will debut on Friday 8 February 2019, in Brussels.

The first edition of the festival will launch with three events over two days, on African feminism, migration experiences in Europe, free love & radical ideas.