Reader's Cafe Africa

Give thanks. You stopped returning to that empty well.

What are you currently reading??

After a long wait for my order, it has finally arrived. @KPutuma @KeletsoMopai @SueNyathi @TakalaniM6

I keep Ijeoma Umebinyuo’s Questions for Ada by my bedside like some people do with their bibles. That book saved my life.

We’re inviting independently owned bookstores to apply for exhibitor subsidies to take part in our virtual book fair this year! We’re gearing up to bring you a uniquely African online experience! Apply here: shorturl.at/aiQ05 Applications close this Tuesday! #SABF2020

2 years ago on this day, we launched #TheGoldDiggers in @ExclusiveBooks Menlyn Mall. I was in conversation with @KaraboKgoleng Happy 2nd birthday. You are toddling along nicely!

This is the stuff we like to see! Support independent bookstores 💗

See you now now on @LS3841’s IG page for the latest book news!! So happy for you and excited for what’s to come! #RedSoil #BookNews #UntimelyBeginnings #LorraineSithole

Celebrate your private wins. No one may know the depth of the struggle you have been in, but your survival is worthy of praise. 🙌🏾

Whatever is weighing you down, may your heart and spirit be lifted above it. It’s going to be alright. Good morning Beautifuls💞

"You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing." – Anonymous #amreading #boocshare

How do you get home & out of harms way when there are no running trains & home is hundreds of kms away? YOU WALK. This Saturday, we are in conversation with @FredKhumalo about #TheLongestMarch, It's promising to be quite an arduous yet necessary journey #BookclubSaturday

This collection of short stories traverses issues which impact Black people in a myriad of ways. It uses narrative to speak about important issues such as mental health, Xenophobia and issues plaguing the nation. @SowetoTVchannel @Radio2000ZA @CheekyNatives @FatCatsBookClu1

Virtual Booksessions on Instagram will be kick starting today with Tebogo Nong. Author of The Truth Shall Bloom and a filmmaker. We are all about discovering new reading material and having a fun virtual literature trip. Join us and follow bookworms_za on instragram for the live.

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”  ― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life buff.ly/2HPh6Lk

Creativity at work in this #BlackLivesMatter video by @epixodemusic #accrabookfest2020 #myaccrabookfest Epixode - Too Much (Official Video) youtu.be/8nsqUHp12m0 via @YouTube

What’s that one book you’d like to have read by end of the year?

Just remember what binds us together here- our common love for literature, particularly literature by African authors

The 2020 Ghana International Writers' Conference is being organised in partnership with the @AidooCentre. Join the biggest literary community in Ghana and learn from industry players. #accrabookfest2020 #ghanawritersconference #BlackLivesMatter

Your opportunity to get published by Pan Macmillan South Africa is here! Our commercial fiction submissions period opens tomorrow to the 22nd of June. Visit our website for more information and guidelines on the submission process: bit.ly/2EJ5gTK