The first of February every year marks World Read Aloud Day, a day on which writers and members of the public read aloud to children. For this year’s #WRAD18, local literacy advocates Nal’ibali hoped that one million South African children...
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World Read Aloud Day takes place on 1 February every year. For 2018’s edition, literacy advocates Nal’ibali have commissioned PEN SA member Zukiswa Wanner to write a story to be translated into all official South African languages and read aloud...
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For the last four years PEN South Africa has partnered with the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA), the organisation which initiated and drove the first four years of the Nal’ibali national reading-for-enjoyment campaign. Together,...
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Press release: 23 April is World Book Day (WBD) and Nal’ibali, the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, has joined hands with Exclusive Books and the South African Booksellers Association (SABA) in asking South Africans to help them put a storybook in the...
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Press release from Nal’ibali: Highlighting the critical lack of books available in all African languages to children in South Africa, Nal’ibali, the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, has produced a powerful public service announcement that illustrates the breakdown of books available per...
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