Zukiswa Wanner

Afrolit Sans Frontières: Stories and writers in the comfort of your living room

Article Kwanele Sosibo - 23 Mar 2020

Zukiswa Wanner has organised a virtual literary festival, from March 23 to 30, to help readers and writers struggling with self-isolation

Accra: An Outsider’s Brief Perspective

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 27 Aug 2019

"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."

Write the future with young adults

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 19 Aug 2019

Leaders of this continent need to pay attention to the intellectual need of the majority of the population.

Border delays because officials can

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Nov 2018

Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles

There’s no sweetness in Kenya’s sugar

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 6 Jul 2018

A drama worthy of a Connie and Shona Ferguson production

I voted yes for land expropriation

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 17 May 2018

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.

Black Panther is more than just representation

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 23 Feb 2018

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

A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 9 Feb 2018

"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".

The house of stone: A parable

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 1 Dec 2017

"Citizens were told to tighten their belts while the political class loosened theirs because their stomachs had become too large".

Some are more valid than others

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 15 Nov 2017

White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they're telling us things we already know

We need our own Nobel and an academy

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 13 Oct 2017

We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.

What makes a good bookstore?

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 29 Sep 2017

A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.

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