Botho Lejowa

"It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you"

"Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things"

"There is so much chaos and uncertainty in living, in life and writing for me feels like it’s possible to tame the wild of life into patterns and words, into beauty"

"It’s the prevalence of premonitions that got me started and I thought it would be cool if I could personify death"

"I think that perhaps the ways that some books are written do not cater for us and therefore feel alienating"

"Batswana must develop those habits of writing and sustain them"

"Writing for me is when I feel the most connected to myself and everything around me. I’d do it even if no-one ever read anything I wrote"

"The duty of all governments is to make the environment conducive for writers, incentivize them to produce their best works"