Mogonare for African Writers Conference

Magonare
Magonare

A local author, Khumoetsile Magonare, also known as D’Arcy, is in Ghana to attend the African Writers Conference. Magonare is one of the local authors who have already written two books on international personalities, President Ian Khama and the late former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.

She recently published a book on motherhood. In an interview with Arts&Culture, she said she has been invited to the sixth African Writers Conference in Accra, Ghana from November 1-5, 2023. “The African Writers Conference has become a premier platform for writers, readers, publishers, and other creatives to come together and celebrate African literature and culture. Writers across Africa will have the opportunity to explore the vibrant literary scene and connect with like-minded individuals. The conference features talks, workshops, and panels by award-winning authors, editors, and literary agents, providing invaluable insights and tools to help you take your writing to the next level,” she said. Furthermore, Magonare stated that as a published author, she had an interview with a Ghana radio station CITI FM about her second book on Kofi Annan.

She explained that was when she learnt about the African Writers Conference and received the invitation. She is a speaker on fiction and spoken word poetry. The African Writers Conference is a platform for African writers, publishers and bookshops to meet and share ideas on how to grow the literature industry. She explained that she desired to learn and enhance her artistic fecundity. Fortified with such knowledge, Magonare added that she hopes to share with Batswana who are in the creative arts industry. She said the importance of the conference was to meet other fertile minds. “The conference has been designed so that presenters from different parts of the continent share perspectives from their own cultures. The idea then would be to cross-fertilise. This is a learning opportunity and benchmarking opportunity as well. Our literature in Botswana is growing and new authors, writers and poets are also emerging every day. At this level we must come together and be able to sell our own stories and have networking outside our country to push our content outside Botswana,” she stated.

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