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CHILDREN

Nal’ibali: We can all help children learn to read – and to love it

Teaching children the joy of reading is not only the responsibility of schools. There are many ways in which we can impart this precious gift to them

  • Katie Huston
3 min read
Because Katrina Esau is one of very few remaining speakers of the N|uu language, she decided to publish a children’s story in her mother tongue, saying it was a ‘matter of the heart’ for her. Photo: James Oatway/Gallo Images/Sunday Times
BODOUR AL QASIMI

N|uu book waters the seed of the decolonisation project

Katrina Esau’s The Ostrich and the Tortoise aims to preserve N|uu for its next generation of speakers

  • Perfect Hlongwane
6 min read