Open Book Festival

Mervyn Sloman: The vision behind Cape Town’s beloved Book Lounge and Open Book Festival

Seventeen years later, Mervyn Sloman reflects on The Book Lounge thriving in the digital age and building reading community through Open Book Festival

Rolland Simpi Motaung

8 min read

Uhuru Phalafala, Radna Fabias, Ishion Hutchinson and Toni Stuart in an Open Book Fesival panel in 2019. This year, the festival has moved online. (Photo: Retha Ferguson)

BONGANI KONA

30 OCT 2020

Cape Town’s Open Book Festival turns over a new leaf

In the midst of the pandemic the literary festival is hosting podcasts instead of livestreamed panels

Lehlohonolo Shale

5 min read

AFRIKAANS

27 SEP 2019

Let’s reinvent Afrikaans (and ourselves) together

It is time we start talking about how we can reinvent Afrikaans through the formation of AfriKaaps

Quentin Williams

3 min read

Unafraid: Sarah Ladipo Manyika brings stories to us that the publishing industry has studiously ignored stories, for instance, about sensuous, older black women. (Paul Botes)

CONSTITUTIONAL HILL

13 SEP 2019

Storytelling is in her blood

Evading gatekeepers helped the author write the African stories she wanted to read

Theresa Mallinson

8 min read