This 10 year-old writer has “greatest ambition” for kids
HUMPHREY NJOKU IT’S not often that a 10-year-old sees their writing in print. For the eldest child in the Augustine
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LITERATURE
Football legend tackles the scourge of white thinking in new book
“PEOPLE aren’t born white, they become white.” This realisation dawned on the former French footballer, World Cup winner and anti-racism
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Memories and images of District Six
A Cape Town architect photographed the buildings and people of District Six at the height of forced removals. His work is finally available to a much wider audience, thanks to his nephew.
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Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: an introduction to the man and his writing
THE Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118
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Book Review | Black and feminist in SA
POETRY and art combine in a collection of 20 essays edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon to shine a light on the ideas and work of women in southern Africa.
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Healing through the written word
LOOKING back, there were plenty of times when South Africa’s “healing” poet, Haroldene Tshienda, might have been overwhelmed by life. Instead, she turned to words as a way of dealing with pain. Now, her words are helping others and she’s ensuring that other young poets and writers find audiences, too.
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How Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai has reinvented the idea of a library
ZIMBABWE born artist Kudzanai Chiurai is a phenomenon. He is one of the most challenging and inventive figures in contemporary
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The library club: taking African storytelling mainstream
“THE first place I head to wherever I’m travelling is a bookshop,” says Sylvia Arthur. So it’s no surprise that she has a dream to connect African readers with African authors through a project that she hopes will take off across the continent. The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora in Accra, or LOATAD, also turns an enduring stereotype – the myth that Africa lacks a culture of reading or writing – on its head.
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Book predicts ANC’s last decade of political dominance in South Africa
THE declining political dominance of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has increasingly attracted scholarly attention since 2009. Political
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The first-ever dictionary of South Africa’s Kaaps language has launched – why it matters
IT’S been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town in South Africa, has never
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