Long Story SHORT
Long story SHORT is doing something really amazing for the African Literature scene.
By: Letlhogonolo Ndhlovu
Every last Saturday of the month, LSS pops up at different libraries around Pretoria with South African authors, actors and sometimes poet laureates like Keorapetse Kgositsile reading short stories to an audience which are then packaged into free podcasts.
On the 27th of June, we gathered for the 4th LSS edition at a library named after one of the founding figures of African Literature,Es’kia Mphahlele. It was quite a pleasurable experience journeying through Thando Mgqolozana’s short story The Weeping Willow read aloud by Khulu Skenjana.
We mind very much that we were kicked out of the library early while still enjoying the positiveness of a movement that only seeks to enlighten…
We mind very much that we were kicked out of the library early while still enjoying the positiveness of a movement that only seeks to enlighten – hardly any surprise because I heard the City of Tshwane’s Youth Development Unit leader at a youth day talk say she had never stepped into a library, so the nuisance of libraries closing early on weekends won’t matter much if our leaders…
The berry of the day was witnessing bibliophiles surrounding the African Flavour Books which is the only black owned, African literature bookstore in South Africa that sells extensive African book titles and music under one roof, and, they sell their books at a discount price at every Long Story SHORT event!
I wonder whose short story the curator of Long Story SHORT, Yewande Omotoso will surprise us with at the next reading.
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