Ingcayizivele Book Fest to promote culture through literature in MP

The Ingcayizivele Book Festival is making strides in preserving culture through literature as the third edition of the festival takes place in Mbombela, Mpumalanga.

Learners from schools around the metro are taking part.

The festival, organized by a non-profit organization BookHive, focuses on the importance of indigenous literature and storytelling.

Thirty local and international authors are taking part. They discuss their books, share personal experiences, and talk about the challenges of being authors.

One of the festival organizers, Hloniphile Mshwane, says their goal is to build a strong reading culture.

“It promotes this culture of learning. So, as we know that the research it says learners, especially from Grade 4, they don’t know how to read. If they do read, they read without comprehension. So, it helps us for this promotion so that people, parents and also the teachers, they know what we are dealing with now,” says Mshwane.