Lesotho Library Association

04/03/2026

🌍📚 IT'S OFFICIAL — THE COMMONWEALTH DAY ESSAY COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN! 🎉✍️
The British High Commission Maseru is excited to launch this year’s Commonwealth Day Essay Competition, and YOU could be one of our winners! 🏆🔥Whether you’re a storyteller, a poet, a future leader, or someone who simply loves sharing ideas… this competition is YOUR stage. 🌟

This year’s big question:
✨ “How can Lesotho leverage multilateralism and its membership in the Commonwealth to turn around the economy and address youth unemployment?”

If you've got ideas, passion, and a vision for Lesotho’s future, we want to hear from YOU! 🇱🇸🤝🌐

✨ Who can enter?
We’ve got 3 exciting categories so everyone can compete:
📘 Category 1: Ages 16–20
📙 Category 2: Ages 21–29
📗 Category 3: Ages 30+

📝 Submission Details
📅 Opening Date: 13 February
⏳ Deadline: 6 March
💬 Word Count: 500–750 words
📨 Submit to: [email protected]
🗣️ Language: English
✍️ Original work only

🎁 Why should you enter?
Because the prizes are 🔥🔥🔥!
Plus, the judging panel includes some of Lesotho’s finest minds:
⭐ Former PM Moeketsi Majoro
⭐ Joshua Setipa
⭐ Nthabiseng Sekoatsa
⭐ ’Maneo Seekane
✨ Winners will be honoured at the Commonwealth Day celebration on 19th March 2026.
✨ Winning essays will be published in a national newspaper!

🎉 Ready to shoot your shot?
Drop a ✍️ in the comments if you're entering!
Tag a friend who needs to see this 👇

04/03/2026

20/10/2025

Happy Open Access Day

27/09/2025

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LESOTHO 50TH GRADUATION CEREMONY HELD ON THE 22ND SEPTEMBER 2025.

The National University of Lesotho held it’s 50th Graduation Ceremony from the 22nd September 2025 where on that first day Faculty of Humanities, Department of Communications and Study Skills, Library and Information Studies’ students walked on the podium before King’s procession to receive their awards. Among those students, Likonelo Alinah Makara received an added award of the “Best Performing Student” from The President of the Lesotho Library Association Mrs. 'Mamonaheng Sylvia Tsukudu.

09/06/2025

It is Archives Week. From the 09th to the 13th June 2025.
Anyone that uses the archives understands that they are accessible. Initiatives like, preservation, digitisation, conservation, AI development and the likes, are all facilitating for ease of access to rather inaccessible archives. Either they would have been destroyed, locked up or damaged beyond information retrieval.

Visit the archives anytime. Their security is for your benefit and the integrity of the future.

02/06/2025

We would like to wish a happy birthday to Her Majesty Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso. We are blessed to have you!