Nal’ibali launches recycled storytelling seats to showcase the power of stories
Nal’ibali, the national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, has created a set of specially illustrated public storytelling seats to inspire children and caregivers to sit and share stories together. Made out of recycled bathtubs, and placed in public places around Cape Town, the seats form part of the campaign’s current ‘Story Power. Bring it home’ drive, aimed at raising awareness about the power of stories to spark…
Lead SA: Sunday Times publishes story time in Afrikaans, Sesotho, isiXhosa and isiZulu
The Sunday Times, in partnership with PRAESA (The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa), recently launched the Sunday Times Nal’ibali Storybook in four new languages.
As part of the Nal’ibali national reading-for-enjoyment campaign, the storybook called ‘Storytime’ was introduced for the first time in English last year.
This year, through a generous donation of funds from readers and the Little Hands Trust, and in…
htxt.africa: New app Nal’ibali brings books to Mxit to help tackle SA’s literacy problems
One of the lesser appreciated problems in South Africa which, if tackled correctly, could have a knock on effect for everything from business acumen to social understanding to basic education is that in a lot of areas within the country, there’s no such thing as a reading culture. As the Spanish philosopher George Santayana put it, “those who do not remember history are doomed…
Story as meaning-making
Stories are woven so tightly into the fabric of our everyday lives that it’s easy to overlook their significance in framing how we think about ourselves and the world. They fill every part of our daily lives as we talk about events and people, read books and news reports, gossip, send text messages, listen to music, watch video clips, and catch up on a…
Nurturing readers: PRAESA and the IBBY-Asahi award
PRAESA (the research initiative behind Nal’ibali) talks about nurturing readers and writers in South Africa, and its solutions for a literate country.
Gauteng schools receive Nal’ibali Literacy Charter
To mark the close of International School Library Month on Friday October 31, Nal’ibali has partnered with the Gauteng Education Department and Gauteng Library and Information Services (LIS) to ensure that 1 000 schools in the province with libraries, partly functioning libraries, and classrooms libraries receive a copy of the campaign’s Children’s Literacy Charter, which outlines key experiences children need to help them learn to read and…
The joy of picture books
This International Picture Book Month, Nonikiwe Mashologu shares why picture books aren’t just nice to look at, but are an essential part of children’s literacy development.
One of the main reasons I found myself in the field of children’s literature was my love of the imagery that often goes together with the words in children’s books. I’ve always loved the art, colours and textures that…
Create your own Nal’ibali Story Power book box
Nal’ibali Story Power book boxes are a practical and artistic way to get your child to fall in love with books, reading and creativity!
Help your children to make their own Story Power book box, which they can use to store their favourite books and stories. They can keep it next to their beds so that reading and books become a part of their everyday life –…
Reading in the times of ignorance: Mandla Langa
Mandla Langa is an accomplished author whose book The Lost Colours of the Chameleon won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Best Book Award for Africa., and his latest novel is The Texture of Shadows. Mandla speaks to us about growing up reading in a world where books were not a priority:
I grew up in Mayville, Durban, as the fifth child in a family of nine, including my parents….
Language can reshape our economy: David Harrison
What do you do when you’ve stared at the same problem for years but still cannot figure out how to solve it? You frame it differently and see it through someone else’s eyes.
So the next time we hold a big education summit in South Africa, we don’t invite educationists, but civil engineers.
They might picture the education system as a high-rise building, but would not…
