Busisekile Khumalo

Feb 2, 2024 | taggedonline.co.za | Relebone Rirhandzu eAfrika |Candice Carty-Williams |Busisekile Khumalo

It’s nasty business that for decades Black people were branded illiterate and perhaps worse — uninterested in reading. The truth of the matter is that despite existing in a country with a racist publishing industry that didn’t trade books that reflected or represented us — we Blacks were buying and reading books. If we could not afford books, we passed books on from home to home, in the same way we passed on oral histories and narratives since van toek’ af.