New book unpacks the complexities of whiteness in South Africa
IN his latest book sociologist Professor Roger Southall, a prolific researcher who has written extensively about political dynamics in Southern
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LITERATURE
70 years-old takes poetry world by storm
ANGELA Rugara aka “Pikitayi the Poet” is a 70-year-old former health worker taking the poetry world by storm.
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Antjie Krog and the role of the poet in South Africa’s public life
WHEN South African writer Antjie Krog was just 17, she wrote a poem for her school magazine which was shocking
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Can Themba: South Africa’s rebel journalist was a teacher at heart
SIPHIWO MAHALA is well known as a South African short story writer, novelist, playwright and literary organiser. He is also
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Reflecting on South African novelist K. Sello Duiker’s art of madness and social justice
THE South African novelist K. Sello Duiker would have turned 48 on 13 April 2022. Since 2005, when he took
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The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language
THIS year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and
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Can we treat teachers better? A 12-year-old novelist thinks so
HUMPHREY NJOKU, BIRD STORY AGENCY CHIMAMANDA Yvonne Anyagwa always wanted to be a teacher. Inspired by her mother, Carol Anyagwa,
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How Comexposed is birthing a comics and animation ecosystem
TINOTENDA Zambe Makoni and Eugene Mapondera wanted to create a comics and animation economy where none existed. So they started Comexposed in Harare. Now, a new comic culture is helping to entertain – and create jobs.
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Imbokodo is a long overdue series of children’s books on South African women
A new series of books called Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us explores the neglected histories of South African women. Geared
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A short story by Ghana’s Ama Ata Aidoo offers a view of humanity’s place in the world
IN recent years, philosophers and other thinkers have been rethinking how we see humanity and its place in the world.
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