Financial Times — Reading as resistance: the bookshops keeping free speech alive
After months of Covid lockdowns, the Financial Times included Bridge Books among its global roundup of stores that were keeping reading alive. The paper said their writers wanted to "shine a light on political bookshops from Hong Kong to Johannesburg offering a lifeline to readers even under lockdown."
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Lockdown struck just as Bridge Books, an indie bookseller with a mission to represent African literature in all its guises, was riding a wave of interest in homegrown writing, especially among young South Africans. “There are so many great local books out there,” says Shea — and yet even his own adopted children “could walk into a store and find hardly any books about people who look like them”.