The book is an entry to the world of a psychiatric patient on the effects of her medication, the flashbacks and the loneliness.
Co-curator of the Time of the Writer festival Thando Mgqolozana speaks to the Mail & Guardian about decolonising literary systems in South Africa.
‘Child Witch Kinshasa’ is fiction, but barely. It is a book about the Congolese seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Authors are activists of the pen – visionaries whose purpose it is to show us the real world, and the world that we should want to have.
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K Sello Duiker was a trailblazer in more ways than one, inspiring young writers and publishers in turn.
Recently ‘Discovered’ in the West, Teju Cole was already known elsewhere.
Hate and passion flares in rural SA when Thuli meets Jake in a locally flavoured romance novel with a feisty black heroine and hunky Zulu man.
The enormity of the atrocity in Rwanda demands that we keep revisiting it and questioning it. There is no guarantee it won’t happen elsewhere.
On his regular Book Safari, David L Smith looks at <em>The Democratic King</em>, a novel by a policeman from Burkina Faso about his ideal Africa.
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/ 24 December 2009
The M&G‘s literary critic compiles his best reads for 2009 — with a selection of brilliant African writing.
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/ 15 December 2009
Some books are lazy, languid affairs and some are page-turners — forcing you to finish them in one go. Our top 10 reads of the year.
‘Tell our stories" went the post-apartheid creative mantra in film and literature. A golden age beckoned, unfettered by censorship.
Africa’s potential is curbed by the focus on personalities rather than policies, William Gumede tells Percy Zvomuya.
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/ 21 November 2008
Nigerians are in love with language, though meaning is not always a priority – C Don Adinuba hacks through the thickets.
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/ 12 November 2008
<i>Wisdom</i>, by award-winning photographer Andrew Zuckerman, records the faces, ideas and ideals of 50 global icons over the age of 65.
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/ 23 September 2008
Poverty and political instability on the African continent have resulted in a limited culture of reading in most African countries.
Percy Zvomuya reviews <i>Unbridled </i> the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to Britain thinking she has found true love over the internet.
Percy Zvomuya looks at <i>Africa Writes Back</i> by British publisher James Currey.
Southern African authors Zukiswa Wanner and
Valerie Tagwira should take a leaf from each other’s
latest books, says Percy Zvomuya.
Okey Ndibe describes how two grand old men of modern African literature saved his career — and his Christmas.
Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the peerless Mma Ramotswe, talks about hs new adventure, <i>The Miracle at Speedy Motors</i>.
Among the many happenings at the Cape Town Book Fair, few were as auspicious as the relaunch of Heinemann’s famous African Writers Series.
Percy Zvomuya looks at Zimbabwe’s literary enfant terrible Charles Dambudzo Marechera’s ambivalent place in African literature.