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More black fiction writers need to be published in South Africa
Publishing diverse voices could prove to be a source of domestic and global success for local publishers
‘The Sweetest Ache’ extract: Dark brown and midnight black magic
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’
The Portfolio: Makanaka Mavengere-Munsaka
"I knew from the time I was a kid that I wanted to write books, but then life happened and I ended up in finance."
Border lessons: Pay up. Period
This is an extract from the chapter titled Aisha, in which the author travels from Bamako in Mali to Conakry in Guinea
Mending severed histories with returning shades
This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life