Writers from very different places can grapple with the same questions.
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Literature about royal animals was used in workshops to imagine better futures.
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.
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.
She experiments with form while capturing the hopes and contradictions of our times.
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.
Even as Chido Muchemwa’s characters move between countries, generations and identities, they are tied by their desire for care.
In his new book, Carl Death weighs up climate policies in African countries with each country’s stories and films about climate change.
This was a remarkable event because it defied the tired cliché that Africans do not read.
The Interpreters is a new anthology of creative nonfiction that opens an intriguing window on South Africa.
From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa