Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
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Unusually for his generation, he never scrambled to gain positions of power after independence.
She was a trusted mentor to young militants whose 1976 uprising shaped the country forever.
He wanted to be a writer, but believes he’ll get his message across more easily through music.
Suspense-packed yet intellectually sharp, Cape Fever is far more than a chamber drama.
Niall and Leah’s long distance relationship will test what love and career mean on a planet in crisis.
Her poem I’ve Come to Take You Home was written into French law. It deals with the repatriation of the remains of Sarah Baartman.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
His image is the watermark in South African passports, but he is not as widely known as leaders like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Nigeria’s Christian population grew by 25% to 93 million from 2010 to 2020. Today’s novels reflect its social complexity.
The project has highlighted a new generation of African poets and created a visually beautiful archive in the process.
Admitting the variety, embracing the fractures, this was the lesson of all of Wicomb’s writing.
A guide to the work of an acclaimed writer who represented the marginalised in society.
Former residents recall a community nurtured by a spirit of extended family and solidarity.
She experiments with form while capturing the hopes and contradictions of our times.
From demon-possessed killers to charismatic cultists, it can sometimes seem as though South Africa is at war with evil itself.
The end of colonisation did not dismantle the BBC’s operation – the style was already embedded in the broadcasting system.
English readers can now encounter African novels as they were first imagined, in the rhythms of their own languages.
Eventually, I found his famous novels in a souvenir shop in his home town that mostly sold skin-care products.
A visit to a campus bookstore reveals layers of history about Nigeria.
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