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Troubadour, I sing from across the Apocalypse: Nthikeng Mohlele’s novel, Breasts, etc.
Nthikeng Mohlele’s most recent novel, Breasts, etc. (2023), is written in the genre of Apocalypse. The free-thinking focalizer and narrator, James Baldwin (Motsamai), a...
The Spoiled Identity
The drug addict has a wounded brain. There has been some or partial damage and injury to the brain, henceforth brain damage occurs. There...
The Rice Miracle
The greatest nation, it is said, is imagination. I woke up one day and realised that prodigals were knocking at my door. The unshaven,...
2024 in review, from an armchair in New York
From the North-East
A roar sounds and a tumult arises
Swelling onto the black earth of the East
This ragtag band
Green Aloyshas barely budded, wrested with a...
Celebrating Abigail George: An Unsung Literary Achievement
The 2023 Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Prize was awarded to South African writer Abigail George for her evocative poem, In a Lonely Search...
Nthikeng Mohlele On Writing: Choice, Consciousness, Self, The Novelist, The Man And The Artistic Life
Nthikeng Mohlele was partly raised in Limpopo and Tembisa Township, and attended the University of the Witwatersrand, where he obtained a BA in dramatic...
The Poet Eugene Skeef: “Violent Seed”, Quiet Dreams And The Trust Of Strangers
AG: Please introduce yourself.
ES: My name is Eugene Skeef. I am a South African living in London since I went into exile from my...
The Straight Path: In Praise Of Israeli and Palestinian Poets
I am writing this to honour the dead. Every single person that's experienced affliction during this, what they call, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Like Yehuda Amichai,...
Another year of sadness for Sudan
I didn’t go to the poet Mzi Mahola’s funeral. Ernest, another well-known Eastern Cape poet, said that he would give me a lift in...
For my mother
In December of 2023, almost a year ago, the prize giving ceremony of the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award was held at the...