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Blackbird Books

More black fiction writers need to be published in South Africa
Opinion
/ 10 January 2023

More black fiction writers need to be published in South Africa

Publishing diverse voices could prove to be a source of domestic and global success for local publishers

By Thabo Miya
‘The Sweetest Ache’ extract: Dark brown and midnight black magic
Friday
/ 20 November 2020

‘The Sweetest Ache’ extract: Dark brown and midnight black magic

An activist’s encounter with an attractive waitress leads her to take an inventory of her own body in Mercy Thokozane Minah’s ‘The Sweetest Ache’

By Mercy Thokozane Minah
The Portfolio: Makanaka Mavengere-Munsaka
Article
/ 23 August 2019

The Portfolio: Makanaka Mavengere-Munsaka

"I knew from the time I was a kid that I wanted to write books, but then life happened and I ended up in finance."

By Makanaka Mavengere Munsaka
Border lessons: Pay up. Period
Article
/ 26 April 2019

Border lessons: Pay up. Period

This is an extract from the chapter titled Aisha, in which the author travels from Bamako in Mali to Conakry in Guinea

By Lerato Mogoatlhe 2
Mending severed histories with returning shades
Article
/ 13 July 2018

Mending severed histories with returning shades

This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life

By Jane Rosenthal

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