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Chris Thurman
Should Shakespeare be taught in Africa’s classrooms?
Is there a place for Shakespeare in African schools, or is his time long past?
‘Political correctness takes away your balls’
World-renowned and mostly overseas-based, Athol Fugard finds that he inevitably writes for fellow South Africans, whose code he mastered long ago.
Make SA books matter
Novelists and reviewers can shape the industry by producing work for mass appeal as well as the serious-minded, argues <b>Chris Thurman</b>.
Academia’s Lilliputian projectors
Scholars may not be among the truly exploited, but they are undervalued, writes <b>Chris Thurman</b>
Two books a pattern make (almost)
Chris Thurman reviews Alex Smith’s literary example of a sub-sub-genre — South African language teachers in China.
Lucifer’s language
For the Sake of Silence (in which the narrator frequently meditates on the undesirability of words) extends to 550 pages.