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Authors who were anticipating payments were left high and dry by African Flavour Books when the store closed unceremoniously
Slice of life: Writing is painful but it heals
‘It’s sort of like attending to a wound that has been festering under a Band-Aid’
What makes a good bookstore?
A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.
Writing’s on the wall for parochial SA publishers
‘Part of the disconnect between writers and white publishers has been ingrained in this belief that a certain demographic of people does not read’
African Flavour Books: Vaal’s little piece of heaven
The Mail & Guardian speaks to African Flavour Books owner Fortescue Helepi at the Time of the Writer festival hosted in Durban this week.