June is the month to celebrate short stories in Africa, Short Story day Africa is 21 June, the shortest day of the year. Short Story Day Africa is asking writers to blog about our early memories of reading and what it meant to us. Here is my contribution.
What is your earliest memory of books and reading?
Like many people I grew up in a chaotic home where getting adults (busy with their own drama) to read to me was rare. But from a very young age I was interested in books. I remember sitting and looking at the pictures and the black squiggly marks at the bottom of the page, and thinking about how once I could decipher what those marks were all about I would have the keys to the universe.
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