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Lewis Nkosi Selected Milestones: Writing and Honours (COMPILED BY SANDILE NGIDI)
A list compiled by Sandile Ngidi
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…
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 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
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
Immorality Act stripped to its essence
An exhibition of essays explores the sexual politics that emerged from an oppressive era
‘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…