The power of books
South African-born writer Beverley Naidoo talks about growing up under apartheid and how reading opened her eyes to injustice:
Believe it or not, the library at my school was kept locked! I have no memory of going inside and choosing a book for myself. What’s more, when I asked our vice-principal to sign a form so that I could join the Johannesburg city library, she refused. I can still hear her voice with her Irish lilt… “And what would you be wanting to read more books for, Beverley? Have you not got enough with your textbooks already?”
Again from The Guardian.
