topic: South Africa

Brenda Fassie, Our Girl in the Mirror
September 11, 2014
Bongani Madondo is a South African writer who, for the better part of his life, has been tip-toeing around words in search of the perfect...
Conversations
In the Presence of Shadows
March 10, 2014
No words could be more pertinent as the ones said by the great Somali writer Nuruddin Farah in his blurb about Yewande Omotoso’s first...
Literature
Never Mermaids
April 18, 2013
This excerpt has been taken from Troy Blacklaws' novel Cruel Crazy Beautiful World. It chronicles the parallel lives of two African men,...
Conversations
Life is Politics!
January 14, 2013
South Africa is going through the most egregiously divisive periods of its young democracy. In the past two months, major news publications...
Reviews
A Persistent Void
July 16, 2012
"I do remember some happy moments, yes, but there was always a gaping hole that could not be filled. Sometimes I am attacked by a profound...