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Books, Language and Impact with Bobo Lukhele #LenyoraWednesday

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Tlotlang chats to Bobo Lukhele who is a news editor at the SABC and a passionate literacy activist dedicated to growing a culture of reading in Mpumalanga. Introduced to books at age five, she went on to found BookHive, an NPO running reading programmes, donating books, forming school book clubs, and building libraries in Kanyamazane.

She is also the author of the Siswati children’s book Lunga na Mlingo, founder of the Ingcayizivele Book Festival and Tinganekwane Festival, and owner of The Readers Cafe and the mobile bookshop BookHive Afrika.

A powerful conversation on literacy, mother-tongue storytelling, and community transformation.

18 Feb English South Africa Society & Culture

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