Talking to a new friend in 2014, acclaimed Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor complained aloud, “Why do I have to go to Europe and America to meet African writers who are writing in other languages?”
Thus, the idea for the Macondo Literary Festival was born. Ms Owuor had met journalist Anja Bengelstorff to talk about her novel “Dust” and a friendship blossomed, through books and, they both laugh about it, Ms Bengelstorff’s baking.
