Adam Habib to Deliver Keynote Address at the 2013 Mail & Guardian Literary Festival (30 August – 1 September)

Nadine Gordimer, Adam Habib, NoViolet Bulawayo (on the long list for the Booker Prize), Ronnie Kasrils, Isabel Hofmeyr, Shaun de Waal, Craig MacKenzie and Niq Mhlongo are among the writers, thinkers, academics and activists who will take part in the fourth M&G Literary Festival at Jo’burg’s Market Theatre from August 30 to September 1.

The festival will pay tribute to and draw inspiration from the late Chinua Achebe, adopting as its theme and subtitle Achebe’s Children: Africa’s Suspended Revolutions. In the keynote address on August 30, Adam Habib — the new vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand — will talk about South Africa’s suspended revolution.

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