Botho Lejowa

Botho Lejowa is a writer from Botswana. Quotes 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 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 The duty of all governments is to make the environment conducive for writers, incentivize them to produce their best works Africans are natural storytellers”: Botho Lejowa 14 September 2021 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 Africans are naturally in tune with the ancestral realm. We “feel” things. “know” things It’s the prevalence of premonitions that got me started and I thought it would be cool if I could personify death Giving people opportunities to write and exposing people to technical experts in the space can be career altering I want to write. That pretty much sums up my aspirations for my career A CONVERSATION WITH BOTHO LEJOWA ON HER LATEST NOVEL “MEETINGS WITH DEATH”. 2 October 2021 It’s a beautiful thing to find your book at a community book store that has raised you AUTHORS APPRECIATE EXCLUSIVE BOOKS BOTSWANA 21 August 2022 Category:Authors Category:Writers Category:People from Botswana Category:Living people