Book Review | Remnants of Miriam Tlali
BARBARA BOSWELL EDITED by esteemed feminist literary critic Pumla Dineo Gqola, Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom presents a kaleidoscopic view of Miriam Tlali’s
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LITERATURE
Book sheds light on apartheid South Africa’s hidden massacre
about the need for South Africans to learn to listen to voices from the past in order to re-imagine the
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Nawal El Saadawi: Egypt’s grand novelist, physician and global activist
EGYPTIAN novelist, physician, sociologist and global activist Nawal El Saadawi died on 21 March 2021 at the age of 89.
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Nawal El Saadawi, pioneering Egyptian feminist, in her own words
Feminists across the Middle East and beyond are mourning the death of trailblazing Egyptian thinker, doctor and writer Nawal El
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How apartheid denied a Black golf champ
BARRY COHEN SEWSUNKER “Papwa” Sewgolum began playing golf with a syringa stick but went on to win the Dutch Open
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Learning from the story of pioneering South African writer Sindiwe Magona
I experienced incredible anger about others writing about us, I asked myself, ‘How dare they write about you?’ I told
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Fighting for Black women’s rights
JOYCE PILISO-SEROKE ACTIVIST and community organiser Joyce Piliso-Seroke fought overseas and at home in the struggle against apartheid, eventually joining
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Aliens in Lagos: sci-fi novel Lagoon offers a bold new future
Her 2014 novel Lagoon recounts the story of the arrival of aliens in Nigeria. The aliens make their landing in
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The joy of Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’
FRANTZ Fanon observed that in white-dominated societies, reason has a nasty habit of taking flight whenever Blacks enter the room. He joined
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New Books | Archie Mafeje’s political thought
BONGANI NYOKA ASPECTRE is haunting the South African academy, the spectre of knowledge decolonisation. Academics and university students are calling
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