Book Extract

This extract from playwright Anthony Akerman’s memoir tells of coming home after 17 years’ exile

This is an edited extract from prolific writer Zukiswa Wanner’s new novel, Love Marry Kill

This is an extract from ‘The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD’ by Fergal Keane

An edited excerpt from Jonny Steinberg’s ‘Winnie & Nelson : Portrait of a Marriage’ where their daughter Zindzi visits the jail

The beauty and skincare world is littered with myths and misinformation about Black skin. This extract from aesthetician Diya Ayodele’s book ‘Black Skin’ busts some of the most…

African influences help merge periphery with centre to widen our frames of references

In this extract from bell hooks’s book ‘Outlaw Culture’, (chapter title above) she expounds on women’s role in confronting rape culture

The city where Martin Luther King Jr took his last breath remains haunted by urban blight, blues and soul

The second part of an edited extract from Femicide in South Africa (Kwela) by Nechama Brodie lists the names of black lesbians who were murdered, allegedly because of their…

In her book ‘Femicide in South Africa’, journalist and researcher Nechama Brodie examines the violent history the country’s black lesbians have endured

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’

In this extract from journalist Mandy Wiener’s latest book she examines the death of ANC Youth League member Sindiso Magaqa in KwaZulu-Natal

Philippa Garson’s memoir details the heady days of being a Weekly Mail journalist in the 1990s

Our society remains carved up because differences are viewed as weaknesses