She says there will be an entertaining and educational programme and all ages can benefit from the festival since reading is for everyone. “Reading is not for nerds. Reading is for everyone. We need to demystify the idea of what a reader is because everyone should read and incorporate reading in their everyday lives,” Sithole says.

Sithole is an avid reader, publisher and writer.

She is the founder of the BookWorms Book Club and has contributed to these collections: Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu, edited by Niq Mhlongo, and When Secrets Become Stories, edited by Sue Nyathi.

Lorraine Sithole

-      Festival Director