Thebe Mabanga reflects on the state and status of gospel in South Africa.
Dimitri Martinis witnessed the birth of the African Audiovisual and Cinema Commission at the African Film Summit.
We look briefly at new fiction by a young Nigerian, a Mozambican author, an Indian-born woman living in South Africa and several others.
Durban playwright Ronnie Govender has now written a novel, a fictional biography of his exiled uncle. Rajendra Chetty reviews.
How are South Africa’s senior white male poets dealing with the world? Shaun de Waal looks at three new collections.
Eric Miyeni started an e-zine in 2001 and won over the world with his controversial style. <i>O’Mandingo! The Only Black at a Dinner Party</i> (Jacana) is a collection of these opinion pieces, centred on black pride, strength, unity and prosperity, as is evident in this extract.
French writer Jean-Paul Curnier tells Matthew Krouse about the MariMira concept of recycling discarded items into useful artefacts.