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Dynamism: Koleka Putuma (above), the author of Hullo, Bu-bye, Koko, Come In and Collective Amnesia. Photo: Jarryd Kleinhans
AMA ATA AIDOO

Review: Koleka Putuma brings black women history back into the fold

The poet’s new book does the necessary work of reinscribing women into history, but is it poetry

  • Vus'umuzi Phakathi
10 min read
Fever dream: Maneo Mohale has written Everything is a Deathly Flower as a way to tell her story. One of the themes she grapples with is using terminology inherited from the Global North. (Andile Buka)
CARL COLLISON

Creating poetry out of violence

Maneo Mohale speaks about the silence around queer sexual abuse and how she creates beauty

  • Carl Collison
9 min read
A new chapter: Wade Smit’s fascination with isiZulu stories and his desire to see more of them made available to a wider audience led him to start a publishing house with his wife
ANTHOLOGY

isiZulu literature gets a boost

A couple have made it their mission to see more new work published in book form

  • Kwanele Sosibo
10 min read