Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
World Read Aloud Day celebrates 10th year of inspiring a culture of reading

The campaign, together with its partners, read aloud to more than 3-million children in 2021

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Unlocking truths in classic fairy tales for SA children

As part of Literacy and Heritage Month, Standard Bank and Nal'ibali will be bringing three time-honoured stories to South African children by ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Rewriting nursery rhymes to eradicate gender-based violence

Babies come into the world ready to learn what it means to be human, and it is the responsibility of the grownups into whose laps they fall to teach ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
'Fiction can save us from ourselves' - Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author of 'The History of Man' and 'The Theory of Flight', explains her writing process.

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
'I’m intentional about provoking empathy' - Sue Nyathi

"I believe fiction is a great way of tackling somewhat heavy subjects," says the author of "A Family Affair". "With fiction you can disarm a reader, ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
'I am not alone in questioning history' - Zoë Wicomb

"Women’s stories are only recorded and recognised at their own instigation and by their own activism. It is not in the interest of patriarchy to do ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Standard Bank makes an investment in literacy with Nal'ibali

Standard Bank has partnered with the Nal’ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign to launch a special Covid-19 relief project aimed at helping select ...

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Q&A with children’s author Ken Wilson-Max

"Even today my inspiration is the same as it was then: tell it from the African perspective."

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Barbara Boswell escaped the traumas of GBV in the safe space of a library

Author Barbara Boswell shares her experience of growing up in a home where gender-based violence was a daily horror.

Nal'ibali National reading-for-enjoyment campaign
Debunking gender myths through stories

This month Nal’ibali is looking at books and literature as a tool to address gender inequalities in SA.