by ebrahim | Jun 27, 2018 | Books
[intro]Philani Dladla is 28 years old, a previously homeless man who reviews and sells books. He travels around the streets of Johannesburg with a small library and sells and reviews books for those passing by, he prefers this to begging for money. He has a difficult...
by ebrahim | May 29, 2018 | Books
[intro]In Sorry, Not Sorry, Haji Mohamed Dawjee explores the often maddening experience of moving through post-apartheid South Africa as a woman of colour. She pulls no punches when examining the social landscape: from arguing why she’d rather deal with an open racist...
by ebrahim | Apr 24, 2018 | Books
[intro]In Sorry, Not Sorry, Haji Mohamed Dawjee explores the often maddening experience of moving through post-apartheid South Africa as a woman of colour. She pulls no punches when examining the social landscape: from arguing why she’d rather deal with an open racist...
by ebrahim | Apr 24, 2018 | Books
Lukanyo and Abigail Calata [intro]When the Cradock Four’s Fort Calata was murdered by agents of the apartheid state in 1985, his son Lukhanyo was only three years old. Thirty-one years later Lukhanyo, now a journalist, becomes one of the SABC Eight when he...
by ebrahim | Mar 28, 2018 | Books
[intro]In this novel, Mda tells the story of a group of Zulus who were sent to England and later the United States in the 1880S to perform as ‘human curiosities’ or ‘freak shows’ in his popular circus.[/intro] “My mission is to tell a good story. If I don’t make my...
by ebrahim | Feb 27, 2018 | Books
Francis Nyamnjoh [intro]For many years, Amos Tutuola, the Nigerian author who was born in 1920 and died in 1997, was despised, ridiculed and made to appear exotic and primitive. He was dismissed by his critics as a relic of a dying and forgotten past of a dark...
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