Author and Sew Good Namibia manager Mel Kelly recently launched the Promising Pages Pilot Initiative, a new little library initiative aiming to establish book-borrowing sites in Namibian communities. In some countries, small cabinets can be seen in public areas such…

Few books have had me enamoured from the prologue. ‘Open Water’ by Caleb Azumah Nelson, the Costa Book Awards 2021 winner, starts off in a barbershop – a simple scene, yet it introduces us very briefly to the main characters,…