Specialized discussion sessions at the Sharjah African Literature Festival
Sharjah, January 26 / WAM / The Sharjah African Literature Festival witnessed its first session, “specialized discussion sessions that collected a wide range of writers, thinkers and senior intellectuals.
The festival fans – currently held in the front arena of Sharjah University City – met the Tanzanian novelist Abdul Razzaq Qarbah, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 through an exceptional literary evening, explored the amazing literary worlds and the various topics he deals with in his novels, especially his novel “Life Life”, which was distinguished by its depth in Major humanitarian issues.
In a dialogue interview entitled: “Farm from Wakanda”, the festival hosted the book Sherrill Netome, from Ghana and Talibi from Nigeria and Nada Hutchu from Zimbabwe, who confirmed that culture represents an economic resource of no less than material resources, noting that creative works such as the movie “The Black Tiger … “I showed how African stories could break the stereotypes and images of the continent and prove that Africa is not far from development and stressed the need to develop the means of providing African culture through innovative platforms that reach a wider global audience,” Kanda is forever.
The session discussed the influence of the movie “The Black Tiger … and Wakanda forever” and the writers pointed to the importance of the film in highlighting African characters in international cinema.
The writer Tendi Hotto emphasized that African culture is one of the greatest treasures of creativity that meets the passion of filmmakers in Hollywood, while Sherrill Netome indicated that the movie “Wakanda” gave African stories a rare opportunity to appear on the world scene and provide a platform for breaking restrictions and stereotypes on Africa and proved that the continent is not Far from development.
The Nigerian writer and guardian of my student stressed the importance of combining heritage and development in the future stories that deal with Africa and said that the Internet links us together as authors and publishers, which is an important part of the development process that African literature needs to reach the world.
In a fictional session full of enthusiasm and suspense, the festival fans had the opportunity to meet the Scottish narrator of Kenyan origin, Mara Menzis, famously famous for her distinguished novels.
In a related context, the “Sharjah Festival for African Literature” witnessed 2025 specialized educational workshops titled “African Pottery”. The public provided an opportunity to explore one of the most prominent traditional arts that reflect the depth and history of African culture.
The workshop presented by the Cameroonian craft in the pottery industry, Janine Yama, attracted participants of all ages and formed a distinctive interactive experience for the audience to get to know the techniques of clay formation and convert it into pottery artifacts bearing an artistic nature and cultural and creative meaning.
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