Stories, Tips & Insights
Literacy, mental health, parenting, and the magic of reading — from our team to yours.
14 Apr 2026
Competition as a catalyst: the evidence for reading competitions as a tool for culture change
Amina is in Grade 6 and has never voluntarily finished a novel. In February, her school enters a SomaStars competition. She reads 300 pages in nine days. The competition did not teach her to read. It created the conditions for her gateway moment.
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17 Apr 2026
From learning to read to reading to lead: a blueprint for building a national reading culture in East Africa
Kenya has the teachers, the publishers, the stories and the mobile infrastructure. What it does not yet have is a system that connects these pieces to each other — at every reading level, in both languages, on the devices that children actually carry. This series has been its foundation document.
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