PaGya Literary Festival 2024 to open at Goethe-Institut

The 2024 edition of PaGya Literary Festival will take place on the premises of the Goethe-Insititut and the Foundation for Contemporary Art in Accra from Friday, October 18 to Sunday, October 21, 2024.

Notable guests expected to grace the festival include a poet/academic, Dr Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (South Africa), authors Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Elizabeth-Irene Baitie, Empi Baryeh (Ghana), HRM King Bubaraye Dakolo (Nigeria), Dagogo Hart (Nigeria / Ireland) and Isabirye Mitch (Uganda).

Others are the playwright, Ian Rowlands (United Kingdom), writer Vamba Sherif (Netherlands/Liberia), academic and a translator, Gustavo Brito (Brazil), author /academic, Prof Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana), and performance poet Hondred Percent (Ghana), among others.

PaGya is a multi-literary arts festival with diverse events and activities, including panel discussions, presentations, book readings, film screenings, talks, performances, master classes, book launches, theatre performances, workshops, exhibitions and book sales.

Under the direction of a Ghanaian academic, Dr Martin Egblewogbe, the festival has since 2017 collaborated with various writers, publishing houses, academics, artistes, cultural institutions and others within the literary and performing arts sector.

Its collaborators and guests have also come from several countries from Africa, Europe, Asia, Canada, the Caribbean and the United States. In 2023, the festival hosted over one hundred guests, comprising writers, artistes, academics and publishers from all parts of the world.

The festival is being sponsored by Goethe-Institut Ghana with support from the European Union Delegation in Ghana, the Irish Embassy in Nigeria, British Council Ghana, Kimo Ghana Ltd, Vidya Bookstore and C. Woermann Ghana Ltd.