I Love Reading

Especially African Stories


African literatures

READING IS MY SAFE KIND OF HIGH. It takes me on a journey into the mind of the writer and get me to experience different cultures, go places in my mind, taste food I haven't seen but can feel from the writers words. Reading dares me to grow, it allows me to experience multiple realities and challenges my perspective. Reading African Literature or stories allows me relate to the people in the book more than I would relate to other books.

I am not saying authors that are not African are not good story tellers, I find that I can connect to African stories in one way or another because most times, there are my reality. When the Author says something about their mothers, or an old aunt, a lover, or one food or the other, I can picture my own life because there would be something that reminds me of a friend, mother, aunt lover or myself, just from reading the book. And even at times when it is not my reality, I know it is a reality of someone close, a neighbour maybe.

I read other genres too because reading is not only about connecting. It is also about going on an exciting, entertaining, educative, and imaginative journey into the mind of the author and seeing all that they want you to see and feel. Hoping their words strikes familiar chords in your mind. For 2022, I set out to read 120 books and have read 14 and counting, see the list here.

It is not a do or die affair, so, even if I can't read up all of my 120 books target, I would be grateful for all the exciting journeys I embarked on.

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