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Within a few pages of Thula Simpson’s rather large tome, there are several key moments that illumine the history of the ANC’s armed wing and...
South Africans apparently don’t read, least of all local fiction. But Mohale Mashigo has blown that belief out of the water; she is preparing for...
I was part of the last generation to grow up under apartheid. I am a white writer who interrogates my mind and soul about the myths of white...
The more levels it works on, the more delicious a book is. Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix — nominated for the Arthur C...
Isabella Motadinyane was a Botsotso Jester. She named them, through a line in her poem One Leg In.
The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (Hodder & Stoughton)Gwen Ansell
Thami Mnyele + Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, edited by Clive Kellner and Sergio-Albio Gonzalez (Jacana)
Since wins by Toni Morrison (1993), Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978) and Saul Bellow (1976), American authors have got short shrift from the Nobel...
In The Book of Memory, Petina Gappah, the author of award-winning short-story collection An Elegy for Easterly, uses the life of...
After the success of her poem Water, PEN SA Student Prize winner for 2016 Koleka Putuma pens a new poem Africa, My Africa - a...
PLEASURE (Picador Africa)Nthikeng Mohlele
OUTSIDE THE LINES
by Ameera Patel (Modjaji Books)
When writer and HIV activist Fezisa ka Mdibi died, no obituary was written in her honour. Yet her voice has been important in highlighting the agency...
"I grew up in a colonial situation in Zimbabwe where we were discouraged from reading anything in our mother tongue," says author and activist Elinor...
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