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.