For its fifth edition, Black History Month Belgium is organizing a Book Fair filled with fresh literary conversations and stories centering Black literature and oral traditions.

This Book Fair will be a unique opportunity to dive into the expansive and diverse world of Black(-descendant) storytellers and actors of the Belgian literature sector who are still too often underrepresented. It will also welcome Afro-diasporic authors from our neighboring countries who share a linguistic connection with our multilingual Brussels context, namely the Netherlands and France.

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫:

• Marie Dasylva – Survivre au Taf (2022, FR) – in conversation (FR) with Sarah Diedro Jordão

• Milouska Meulens – Elin (2021, NL) – in conversation (NL) with TBC

• Amzat Boukari-Yabara – L’Empire qui ne veut pas mourir, Une histoire de la Françafrique (2021, FR) – in conversation (FR) with TBC

• Moussa Don Pandzou & Lieven Miguel Kandolo – Yaya Na Leki (2021, BE) – in conversation (NL) with TBC

• Dr. Pierre Mbuyamba Wakujoja – Impossible Trajectoire de Vie, Le Racisme N’existe Pas? Je L’ai Rencontré. (2022, BE) & Dr. Paul Bosuma W’Okungu Bakili – Je M’en Souviens (2020, BE) – in conversation (FR) with François Makanga