We're glad Chigozie Obioma has recovered from COVID-19! brittlepaper.com/2020/04/chigoz…

Keeping the Legacy of Keorapetse Kgositsile alive: Xarra Books presents excerpts from the trilogy ‘Homesoil in my Blood’, accompanied by multimedia displays and performances. This is the 1st: A Letter from Havana’. #Remembering_Kgositsile #Keorapetse_series’ #XarraBooks

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Art for Books: The Clarke's Bookshop Fundraising Auction | Aspire Art Auctions auctions.aspireart.net/auctions/1-2YI…

We're in the Business Day! businesslive.co.za/bd/life/books/…

These are the last few days to bid in our fundraising auction, closing on Monday evening: auctions.aspireart.net

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Required reading for the week: have you read all 5 shortlisted stories for this year’s AKO The Caine Prize for African Writing? The Prize received an unprecedented 222 submissions this year from 28 African countries. eboquills.com/2020/05/31/ako… #ReadingAfrica

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We have updated our website! You can now buy our books directly through our website. We’ve listed (almost) all the new South African and African stock, and will soon be adding out-of-print and secondhand books.

At least we can still buy books.

Lovedale Press, the almost 200-year-old Eastern Cape publisher is facing closure, but a fundraising initiative that highlights its literary archive and importance as a cultural institution could save it. newframe.com/preserving-lov…

We’ve had a few people coming in today worried that we are closing down. We are NOT closing down.

And volume one 🙃

Arrested Zimbabwean author, Booker nominee Tsitsi Dangarembga freed | News24 news24.com/news24/africa/…

This thread 🙌

2. Newspapers as Isigidimi samaXosa, Imvo, Kafir express, Izwi, etc are all stored there. early Xhosa and Zulu dictionaries, as well as unpublished collections of testimonies and folklore of Africans by African voices have this building as their storehouse. #capetownfire

Librarians are the unsung heroes of history. Centuries of collecting destroyed. It’s impossible to comprehend the scope of the loss.