Books, Language and Impact with Bobo Lukhele #LenyoraWednesday

About this episode

Tlotlang chats with Bobo Lukhele about literacy, reading culture, and community transformation.

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. RISE fm

People in this episode

Host: Tlotlang

Guest: Bobo Lukhele

Topics covered

• literacy
• reading culture
• community transformation
• mother-tongue storytelling
• education

Keywords

• literacy
• reading
• Mpumalanga
• BookHive
• Bobo Lukhele
• mother-tongue
• storytelling
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SABC, BookHive, Ingcayizivele Book Festival, Tinganekwane Festival, The Readers Cafe, BookHive Afrika

Books & works: Lunga na Mlingo

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