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V Njabulo Zwane
V Njabulo Zwane is a writer and researcher, with scholarly interests in Black popular cultures and South African historiography
Lewis Nkosi and All the Things We Could Be by Now if We Were Free
The focus of a new book on Lewis Nkosi is his plays rather than his tsotsi-like critiques
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Sol Plaatje and the antinomies of writing against ‘South Africa’
The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading
Blues for Bra Hugh
More than just Afro-jazz, his music was the sound of socialising that harked back to the shebeen as the ‘college of music’