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Lewis Nkosi, 1936-2010, left South Africa in 1961 to spend the next 30 years in exile after being denied leave to return. (Photo: Peter Schnetz)

Lewis Nkosi Selected Milestones: Writing and Honours (COMPILED BY SANDILE NGIDI)

A list compiled by Sandile Ngidi

Lewis Nkosi at the Drum offices (BAHA/Africamediaonline)

Lewis Nkosi: The physical bearer of the offending word

In his lifetime, Lewis Nkosi arguably saw little effort in terms of intense engagement with his controversial critical inputs. In a review of a new anthology, Unathi Slasha tries…

Freestyle pantsula dancers in Soweto, Johannesburg, 2016. (Photo: Chris Saunders)

Why place matters in celebrating Jo’burg’s club history

The history of clubbing in Jo’burg is less about physical space and fading memories, but about the sheer, frightful necessity of dancing

Lewis Nkosi with Dambudzo Marechera at a writers’ conference in Harare in 1983. (Photo: Tessa Colvin)

Lewis Nkosi and All the Things We Could Be by Now if We Were Free

The focus of a new book on Lewis Nkosi is his plays rather than his tsotsi-like critiques

Es’kia Mphahlele’s The Wanderers (1971)

The monstrous mental asylum: Lewis Nkosi writing home

Apartheid SA’s madness, as diagnosed in the exiled author’s subversive texts, was the result of colonialism’s psychological violence

Flash: Trevor Makhoba’s Great Temptation in the Garden comments on the disjointed power relationships that apartheid created.

Immorality Act stripped to its essence

An exhibition of essays explores the sexual politics that emerged from an oppressive era

Strikingly original: Jolyon Nuttall’s essays demonstrate a preoccupation with clarity and concision, discipline and attention to detail. (Supplied)

‘I was there’: Essays that map a life

Academic Achille Mbembe sat down with retired journalist Jolyon Nuttall, who is also his father-in-law, to talk about his new book of essays

Where there’s smoke, there’s mirrors

The European and American tradition of the political novel is deeply entrenched. From Emile Zola to Gore Vidal, the perceptions and attitudes of citizens in these smug old…