Kagiso Lesego Molope is at odds

What to do, in a gracious way, with a literary prize when you have doubts about the prizegiver. This happeend to the South African (but now living in Canada) writer Kagiso Lesogo Molope. She had written a young adult book titled ‘This book betrays my brother’. What did she do with the prize?

Read about her actions here

Kagiso Lesego Molope: 'The prize gave me a chance to become the kind of artist I aim to be'.

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I enjoy reading about Africa. New books. Old books. By African writers. By non-African writers. Novel. History. Travel. Biographies. Autobiographies. Politics. Colonialism. Poetry.

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