“There are libraries where I live, small ones and bigger ones, but given that I live in France, most of the books there are in my native language. The selection of books available in English in the library closest to me consists of, most likely 20 books, tops and these are mostly classics, with a Harry Potter copy thrown in..”

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“There’s this one public library in Kigali, the biggest of them all, it has got a wide range of books from locally published ones to international bestsellers. Sometimes it’s challenging to find the books you want but that’s been easy now that you can order them online.”

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“Literacy only became widespread in the mid-20th century here, so literature still isn’t given much value. While I do think that this is changing, it’s happening very slowly.”

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“Our libraries offer a great variety of books in Dutch, but also in other languages like English, French, and German. Usually I’m able to find the books I want, especially in the bigger libraries.”

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“Generally speaking, there is a culture of reading in India, but it is steeped in a lot of problems of access and privilege.”

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