
ATLANTA FRANCOPHONIE FESTIVAL 2025
UPCOMING EVENTS
Filtering by: “Literature”

Mar
8
Artist Talk with Walid Hajar Rachedi: Connections between literature & rap
French writer and publisher Walid Hajar Rachedi will talk about his work as an author, making connections between literature and rap.

Mar
3
Writing Resilience | A Talk with Veronique Tadjo
Ivorian writer Véronique Tadjo comes to Emory University to present an online talk followed by a Q&A. Véronique Tadjo is a poet, novelist, academic, and artist from Côte d’Ivoire. She earned a doctorate in Black American Literature and Civilization from the Sorbonne, Paris IV, and went to the United States as a Fulbright scholar at Howard University in Washington, DC. She headed the French Department of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg until 2015. Her books have been translated into several languages.