Alice Walker
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Sexual scribbling: A short list of new and classic literature on sex
Author and sex activist Tiffany Kagure Mugo shares some pivotal reading on sex, including books she has authored or compiled
Afro Story: Africana at the push of a button
A new reading app plans to make relevant literature easily available
End voluntourism and the white saviour industrial complex
We need to dismantle the unequal systems we have upheld in Africa. Divesting from missionary tours is a good place to start
Will colourism be SA’s red scare?
Reminiscent of the McCarthy witch-hunts, darker-hued people are seen as not ‘belonging’
My journey of reading women, writing as a woman and growing a wide heart
Growing up, I was taught that reading was the key to life. Now I read to write.
Stars urge Alicia Keys to drop Israel gig
Roger Waters and Alice Walker pen open letters asking Keys to join cultural boycott of ‘unjust and unbelievably evil’ Israel
A walking wonder called Alice
The writer best known for <i>The Color Purple</i> does not pull her punches or offer an apology.
Alice Walker in SA ‘to connect our struggles’
African-American writer Alice Walker is the first speaker from outside Africa to speak at the Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.
Alice Walker to deliver Steve Biko lecture
Author Alice Walker will visit South Africa for the first time in September this year to deliver the 11th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture.