Reading

African Libraries That Adapt Can Take The Continent’s Knowledge To The World

South African librarians were shocked in 2013 when one of the top researchers at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology claimed that he no longer needed the library to do his research.Professor Johannes Cronje’s paper echoed an incr...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Books Are Delightful As They Are – Don’t Fall In The Trap Of Competitive Reading

My happiest times in childhood were spent reading the books of E. Nesbit, C.S. Lewis and Joan Aiken. Preferring to read in hidden corners where nobody could find me, I immersed myself completely in these stories and believed utterly in t...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

The Best Books By African Writers in 2019 So Far...

From evocative prose to moving memoirs and hilarious satire, we bring you some of Africa's best reads from the first half of 2019:

Samira Sawlani·almost 5 years ago