This is an edited extract from prolific writer Zukiswa Wanner’s new novel, Love Marry Kill
Audiobooks narrated in authentic voices slowly start featuring on the company’s releases
Zukiswa Wanner has organised a virtual literary festival, from March 23 to 30, to help readers and writers struggling with self-isolation
"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."
Leaders of this continent need to pay attention to the intellectual need of the majority of the population.
Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles
A drama worthy of a Connie and Shona Ferguson production
In 1994, 86% of land was white-owned. There had been an agreement that 30% would be transferred by 1999, the date has been shifted to 2025.
It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse
"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".
"Citizens were told to tighten their belts while the political class loosened theirs because their stomachs had become too large".
White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they’re telling us things we already know
We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.
To be a woman in Kenya, South Africa or Zimbabwe means to be in perpetual fear of some form of abuse at the hands of men
Many good writers appear to be solipsists, selfish and even competitive, and unkind. These writers will remain good but will never be great.
Southern African authors Zukiswa Wanner and
Valerie Tagwira should take a leaf from each other’s
latest books, says Percy Zvomuya.
<i>African Writing Online</i>’s inaugural issue features Caine Prize winners Brian Chikwava, Helon Habila, local writer Zukiswa Wanner and others. Percy Zvomuya speaks to the editor, Afam Akeh.