By Tumelo E. Phali | Posted: August 02, 2005
It was that time of the year again when writers, poets and book lovers from all over the world gathered to drink from the calabash of literary juice – this was time for the annual Calabash International Literary Festival 2005!
As in the previous years the vibrant event - held at Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth in Jamaica - offered a sumptuous line-up of live readings, stage performances and other special activities – very much in line with the promise made by the festival organizers to make the event grow “better and better over time”.
You can read more about the festival in "Calabash Special" in the caribbeantales.ca's section of this issue. Plus there is audio visual material for you to get a good glimpse of what went down at the event in Jamaica.
The first week of July provided us with one of Toronto’s summer highlights – the 17th Annual Afrofest festival held in Queens Park, Toronto. Always a memorable event and the best in the category, we would like to thank Music Africa and everyone involved for once again cracking it and proving that it’s not the money but the brains that produce miracles! Read more about the event in the events section of Around the Fire.
And finally, in our writer profile section ATF has the honour of bringing you a profile of one of Africa’s greatest sons - filmmaker, scholar, worldly thinker and literary activist Professor Manthia Diawara who was one of the guests at the Calabash 2005 Festival.
We hope you savour what we have harvested for you this month and look forward to seeing you soon in our next issue.
Hold on to the roots,
Editor
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