If you’re not familiar with us already, I'd like to introduce you to Catalyst Press, an indie publisher of African writers and African stories headquartered in Cape Town and the USA. This year, we're proud to host our fifth annual #ReadingAfrica Week celebration, and we'd love for you to join us. 

Starting this Sunday 5 December, and going all week long, we're inviting publishers, authors, educators, librarians, readers, and book-lovers of all kinds to use the hashtags #ReadingAfrica #FundaNathi and #OokinAfrikaans across social media to highlight posts that celebrate African literature. Whether it's a new release or an old favourite, from sci-fi to poetry, this is an opportunity to share your top reading picks from across the continent. 

This year, to celebrate five years of #ReadingAfrica, we're hosting three virtual panels you can join:

Next Monday 6 December at 19:30 SAST, it's all about comics. KaDi Yao Tay, founder and editor of Squid Magazine, moderates a conversation on graphic novels and comics with Bill Masuku (author/illustrator, Captain South Africa), Ivanka Hahnenberger (translator Madame Livingstone), Richard Conyngham (author, All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa), and Salim Busuru (Creative Director of Avandu Studio)

Wednesday 8 December at 19:30 SAST, join us for a discussion on children's literature moderated by Atlas Book Club founder, Bunmi Emenanjo. Featuring Ekiuwa Aire (author, Idia of the Benin Kingdom), Hannes Barnard (author, Halley's Comet), and Caroline Kurtz (author and co-founder of Ready Set Go Books), and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (translator and editor, World Kid Lit blog)

Friday 10 December at 19:30 SAST, our closing panel features women writers we love. Moderated by Jen Thorpe, author and host of the podcast Living While Feminist, this panel features Gabeba Baderoon (professor and co-editor, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa); Cheluchi Onyemelukwe (author, Son of the House), Sifton Anipare (author, Yume), and Yewande Omotoso (author, An Unusual Grief)

REGISTER HERE for these three awesome events, and we'll see you next week to celebrate #ReadingAfrica!