African Flavour Books will be opening a new bookstore in Braamfontein, South Africa. The company, which “sells African literature and vernacular literature from South Africa” as well as music, movies and stationery, was founded in 2013 by Fortiscue and Nokuthula Helepi, and based in Vanderbijlpark in the Gauteng, South Africa.
While the development is yet to be announced on the company’s Website, we got wind of it through a Facebook post by the South African writer Niq Mhlongo, author of Dog Eat Dog (2004), After Tears (2007) and Way Back Home (2013), whose books are being promoted by the company.
Good news for my Johannesburg book readers, lovers and buyers; African Flavour Books is opening a huge book store this Saturday in Braamfontein. The store is strategically located along De Korte Street by Braamfontein’s Lamunu Hotel, a block away from The Orbit, Kitcheners, Devonshire, and Bannister. Today I visited my longtime friend, Fortiscue Helepi who is the owner of this bookstore. For three years in the late 90’s Helepi and I lived at the same Woolsack residence while we were both students At the University of Cape Town.
Authors whose books feature on the company’s Website include Zakes Mda, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kopano Matlwa, Wole Soyinka, Bessie Head, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Mongane Wally.
Congratulations to Fortiscue and Nokuthula Helepi.
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Photos from Niq Mhlongo’s Facebook.
samuel September 06, 2017 04:30
Thanks so much for having to continue to provide us with knowledge especially in regard to the new book store that you have just opened....we are grateful ...