Zukiswa Wanner
latest news & developmentsSo Close to Gaza: Inside a Night the Gaza Flotilla Didn’t Reach Shore
In her new book Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience, Zukiswa Wanner recounts the harrowing final hours of a civilian flotilla intercepted while attempting to break the blockade of…
Discover God’s gift to women
This is an edited extract from prolific writer Zukiswa Wanner’s new novel, Love Marry Kill
Audible’s new stories from Africa
Audiobooks narrated in authentic voices slowly start featuring on the company’s releases
Afrolit Sans Frontières: Stories and writers in the comfort of your living room
Zukiswa Wanner has organised a virtual literary festival, from March 23 to 30, to help readers and writers struggling with self-isolation
Accra: An Outsider’s Brief Perspective
"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."
Write the future with young adults
Leaders of this continent need to pay attention to the intellectual need of the majority of the population.
Border delays because officials can
Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles
There’s no sweetness in Kenya’s sugar
A drama worthy of a Connie and Shona Ferguson production
I voted yes for land expropriation
In 1994, 86% of land was white-owned. There had been an agreement that 30% would be transferred by 1999, the date has been shifted to 2025.
Black Panther is more than just representation
It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse
A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers
"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".
The house of stone: A parable
"Citizens were told to tighten their belts while the political class loosened theirs because their stomachs had become too large".
Some are more valid than others
White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they’re telling us things we already know
We need our own Nobel and an academy
We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
What makes a good bookstore?
A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.