📚 Book Fest Extravaganza

To be or not to be? That is the question... or is it? 🤔

Maybe the real question is, "What is the answer to the universe and everything in it?" (Hint: Answer correctly and win a prize at the door! 🎁👀)

Join us as ALX Ethiopia teams up with Rotaract Club of Finot to celebrate the love of books! Whether you're a hunchback, sporting crooked glasses, or just someone with a delicate touch for turning pages, you're welcome! We’ll dive in to great discussions, solve bookish mysteries,….✨

📅 Saturday, August 24 (ነሐሴ 18)
⏰ 2:00 PM - 7:30 PM (ከ8፡00 - 1፡30 ሰአት)
📍 Capstone ALX Tech Hub, Mexico/Lideta
🔗RSVP now: bit.ly/4cxR1OG

Bring your love for books, and let's have a great time! See you there! 📖✨

We're reading Ivorian poet Tanella Boni's collection The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn this month. Hope to see you on the 31st for our first ever read of a poetry collection!

We're excited to read famed Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni's mythological novel Anubis this July. See you there!

This June, we'll be reading Senegalese author and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene's satirical novel Xala. Join us!

A Cure for Wellness: How the west has taken over spirituality and turned it into modern day colonization
By Bethel Biru Read full story at the link below https://weyra.org/2024/05/21/a-cure-for-wellness-how-the-west-has-taken-over-spirituality-and-turned-it-into-modern-day-colonization/

Our May book club selection takes us to Algeria with Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, translated by John Cullen.

Join us May 25th as we discuss this profound meditation on Arab identity and the effects of colonialism.

This month’s book club selection is By Night the Mountain Burns by Juan Tomas Laurel, from Equatorial Guinea. This Translation by Jethro Soutar is the promising magical tale we’ll be discussing at the end of the month.

Lessons of the Narrow Aisle
By Mahlet Berhanu

Read full poem at the link below
https://weyra.org/2024/03/28/lessons-of-the-narrow-aisle/

Get your works published in our upcoming anthology!

We’re still taking submissions of stories based on the experiences of the last four years.

For more information about the submissions, check our website: https://weyra.org/anthology/

For questions, send us an email at : [email protected]

This month we're reading Eve out of Her Ruins by Mauritian author Ananda Devi. Read along and join us for book club on the 24th!

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