Wame Molefhe to launch Go Tell The Sun

GOTHATAONE MOENG
Staff Writer | Friday June 24, 2011 00:00

Molefhe will read stories from the anthology, while Kabo Leburu will accompany her with music specially composed for the event.

Go Tell the Sun is an anthology of short stories set in Botswana.

Modjaji Books, an independent South African publisher who focuses on work by Southern African women writers, published the collection.  The book was previously launched at the Northern Cape Writers' Festival in Kimberley, South Africa, where Molefhe was a special guest.

Molefhe also chose a different route in the writing of her stories, in that all the stories have a protagonist named Sethunya, which can be interpreted as exploring Sethunya at different phases of her life.

Molefhe's stories explore issues of culture and modernity as well as themes such as absent fathers,homosexuality and infidelity in marriages.

Go Tell the Sun is Molefhe's second collection of stories.

Her first, Just Once, was published by local publisher Medi Publishing, and was prescribed as a set text for junior schools.  She has also collaborated on three collections with writers Lauri Kubuitsile and Bontekanye Botumile. 

Molefhe has also made a foray into television scriptwriting, co-writing television dramas Re Bina Mmogo and Morwalela, both shown on Botswana Television (Btv). 

She has also written for First Issues, a financial magazine show.

Molefhe is currently in Lagos, Nigeria, for the Farafina Trust Writers Workshop run by celebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Kenyan writer and founder of Kwani Trust, Binyavanga Wainaina.

Leburu is one of Botswana's celebrated young guitarists with an album titled Footsteps under his belt.

Tickets for the launch cost P50 and are obtainable from the No.1 Ladies Opera House.