Rand West City Libraries celebrate local female authors
This was through the Women in Writing dialogue which was aimed at introducing female authors and giving them a platform to promote their books
The Rand West City Libraries hosted a Women in Writing dialogue at the Westonaria Banquet Hall.
The event on September 23 was an effort to introduce female authors and encourage them to share their life stories, while also giving them the platform to promote their books.
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Having started at 08:30, the event drew in 10 female authors who also took time off to network at the event.
According to community leader and Member of Parliament Jane Mananiso, the organisers of the event understood their role, which was to provide an enabling environment for the authors.
Rand West is one of the institutions known for creating champions for reading for meaning, and it is only through such programmes that dreaming for a better future is not just a dream but a process to liberate ourselves, our communities, the country and the world.
“You can only liberate the mind if you feed the mind, and the first weapon for any development and empowerment journey is information.
“When we are informed, we are better placed to provide knowledge, understanding and experience when needed,” said Mananiso who added that readers are leaders.
Local author Athini-namhla December took to the stage and spoke of how her life story inspired her book which is titled Gracefully broken; in every test, there’s a testimony.
It speaks of her childhood and details how she lost all her businesses in Durban and had to return home with nothing to her name.
It also speaks of the rocky relationship she has with her mother and how she dated her own brother because they both didn’t know their father.
