Have you ever wondered what new books are on the horizon? 

What books you should be reading or should be on your radar? 

Have you ever wanted to begin a new book but you just didn’t know if you’d enjoy it at all?

Well, this podcast aims to answer all those questions and bring to you all the diverse books that should be on you should be reading. 

I think it’s fair to say that I’ve always been a well-read head, but in 2018 I challenge myself to read 100 books and donate 100 books to my favourite charity Books for Africa, documenting my progress on Instagram. By doing this I often get asked for book recommendations, people wanted to know what I was reading if it was any good and they wanted to know how to find the books they should be reading. 

I would get tons of questions and that’s when I realized two things. 

*People need help finding these stories. The unique stories that speak to us. That challenge what we’ve been taught and the views we have.  The books diversify our bookshelves and break down some of the barriers that exist.

*then the second thought I had was that what were the odds of a book that was written by a non-white author, making it to bookshelves, libraries and in front of the people who really needed to see it? My answer, probably VERY low in comparison. 

This meant that if you didn’t consciously and actively seek books by diverse authors then by default you wouldn’t find them. 

Diversifying our bookshelf helps us diversify our approaches. It gives us the lesser-known perspective, the other side’s point of view. . An often ignored point of view that is pushed to the sidelines, ignored and not taken into account. But I think TIME’s UP. 

It’s time to diversify our bookshelf and bring the sidelines into the mainstream. And that’s why it’s time to get lit!