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Extract: Gunning for Bessie’s Head, from ‘The Terrorist Album’
Jacob Dlamini’s new book, The Terrorist Album, tells the stories of people saddled with that catch-all phrase during apartheid and how their presence on that list made them fair game
Meet the founder of Accra’s one-woman library
Sylvia Arthur founded the Library for Africa and the African Diaspora to house her collection and share it with other readers
Writers on lockdown
Melinda Ferguson has gathered essays and stories from 40-plus contributors for Corona Chronicles
Kintu, a refusal to ‘write back’
Time of the Writer is cancelled. Instead of hearing Jennifer Makumbi speak, we read her first novel
Review: ‘The Mirror & the Light’ or, the fall of Thomas Cromwell
Hilary Mantel’s final volume in the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is a triumphant end to her depiction of the blacksmith’s boy who became the king of England’s right-hand man
Achieving the litmus test of social relevance
The HSS Awards honours scholarly works based on their social relevance and contribution to the humanities and social sciences
Valeria Luiselli tells stories to shame us
Over and over again she writes about the lost children picked up on the United States border
JM Coetzee: A fine mind, a formidable intellect
Behind JM Coetzee, the writer lauded for his ‘wonderfully brave, bold mind’ , is John Coetzee, the quiet man
Threading 40 years of Zimbabwean writing
Kwanele Sosibo talks to Tinashe Mushakavanhu, the co-editor of Some Writers Can Give you Two Heartbeats, about the impetus behind the book
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