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An extract from ‘The Broken River Tent’: ‘I chose resistance!’

In this extract from The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni, the protagonist, Phila, makes a fiery courtroom speech

Mphuthumi Ntabeni

Earthly: Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s book traces Eastern Cape landscapes with their often bloody histories.

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Mending severed histories with returning shades

This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life

Jane Rosenthal