Morocco hosts Soyinka at 28th book fair

Professor Wole Soyinka was the special guest of the Moroccan government at the 28th edition of that country’s week-long book festival that drew literary celebrities from both within and outside the North African country.

On Friday June 9, Soyinka, after a press conference with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, was on stage at Ribat Al Fath for a conversation with Ali Benmakhlouf.

On Saturday June 10, the Nobel Laureate visited Al Qaraouiyine, a UNESCO world heritage site, one of the world’s oldest universities in the city of Fez, with all its medieval architecture, its medina and its treasure of sights and sounds.

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