This paper elucidates the material, spatial, social and infrastructural contexts of reading in
early twentieth century South Africa. It adds to a growing body of work on reading practices …

Early 20th-century South Africa saw the emergence of a range of liberal reading initiatives
aimed at encouraging a black reading culture. What ensued was a lively public debate …

As many others have pointed out, the profile of African language publishing in South Africa
is highly distorted with almost all book production in this area being focused on the …

Through a self-reflexive mode, this essay explores a set of reading experiences using Italo
Calvino's perspectives on reading classics, and Tony Bennett's theorisation of reading …

This view, expressed by Zakes Mda in a popular Sunday newspaper, captures much of the
tone in which debates on a reading culture in South Africa are conducted. Replete with …

Reading and literacy projects in South Africa have a long and fascinating history. In this
conversation, Kgauhelo Dube talks about a contemporary Pretoria-based initiative which …

Reading and developing countries are considered incompatible. This is due to the
increasing apathy towards the habit of reading in these countries of which Ghana is not an …

People looking for works in cities are immersed in English as the lingua franca of the mobile
phone and the urban hustle–more effective instigations to reading than decades of work by …