TURN THE PAGE

A Universe of Mystery, Excitement, and Terror

A thrilling and immersive literary adventure series delivered directly to your phone.
Short and captivating story parts released daily in text format, using little mobile data via any preferred messaging service.
A free tool that provides thrilling, short-form entertainment for youth, with stories centered on African protagonists and African literary history.

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THE CONCEPT

Showcasing African Literature, Science and History

Turn The Page is a youth literary series in the mystery/adventure genre with young African protagonists. It offers episodic-style adventures, which conclude with each solved mystery. At the same time a deeper, overarching story runs through each story instalment, to which each lesson learned/mystery solved contributes to the resolution of the final, concluding mystery. The series utilises African literary resources as clues for solving story puzzles, and offers some scientific and historic exploration.

Making it Fun

Turn The Page engages readers with short, regular texts, giving them something to look forward to, as well as not being overwhelming for those who find reading daunting. In addition, creating an immersive and ‘gamified’ experience (see below), reading can slip easily into the daily entertainment of young readers.

Removing barriers to reading

The series is released in short excerpts regularly (e.g. every weekday) as a digital text file on any chosen platform. This removes barriers such as library access & cost. It also:

gives them something to look forward to
allows time to digest and discuss the story
prevents the texts from being daunting or ovewhelming
satisfies current preferences in media for short-form entertainment

Making it Immersive

Using immersive techniques has been pioneered with the TV format in such youth shows as SKAM (Norway), among others.

Creating social media profiles which (while clearly fictional) give a sense of a real, interactive experience, will allow the story world to be even more engaging, and perhaps resonate more with readers.

Screenshots of social media posts will be included with story part releases, meaning readers do not require social media accounts or internet access to get the immersive experience.

A Call to Action

Turn The Page is a mystery series with its protagonists tasked with exploring literary works, at least half of which are African, in order to solve the puzzles they encounter.

Readers are encouraged to try to guess solution to puzzles within the story.

Tools to make a reasonable guess are provided within the text itself, and also within the literary works the protagonists explore. Excerpts of these works are provided along with the text releases in .txt or compressed image format.

Accessibility

All story part releases will be in a format that allows for accessibility tools to be used effectively (e.g. no text embedded in images, but rather readable by text-to-audio tools; all image files will come with clear descriptors), ensuring that visually impaired readers are not left out.

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