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The greatest thing about writing fiction is you don't know where the story is going. When I was writing Hlomu I became her - you internalise the character and you let her lead you

— Dudu Busani-Dube

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Sometimes I don't even like or agree with her, but I can't change her or tame her just because I'm not happy with her decisions.

There are things that you can’t translate into English, if you tried the sentence would be completely flat

In order to create a culture of reading among children, we need to make books accessible to them and write stories they can relate to

It’s very difficult to adapt a book into a film, especially a fictional book where I have the freedom to do whatever I want to do with the characters.

It is our responsibility as storytellers to promote a reading culture to communities, many of which are marginalised.

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