Aké Arts & Book Festival, Nigeria’s most beloved literary gathering is returning to Lagos this November. The festival has confirmed that its 14th edition will hold in Lagos from 19 to 21 November 2026. If history is anything to go by, it is going to be worth the wait.
For over a decade, Aké has been the place where African literary life converges in its fullest, most electric form: writers in conversation with other writers, readers crowding into sessions that run long because nobody wants to leave, music bleeding into poetry into argument into laughter. It is one of those rare festivals that feels less like a programme of events and more like a world briefly made possible.
The 14th edition returns to Lagos under the organisation of Book Buzz Foundation, the non-profit behind the festival since its founding, with Lola Shoneyin among its trustees. Beyond the flagship gathering, the foundation’s work spans literacy promotion, reading resources for schools, and the broader, slower project of building a culture of reading on the continent, of which Aké is the most visible expression.
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