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Amandhla Awethu: And So The Golden Age Of The African Renaissance Begins
What history has shown is that sometimes a leader, a world leader, or sitting president makes bad choices, he says something, or does something...
Makhanda: Some Thoughts On a Journey into Poetry, Philosophy, and Memory
A memory comes to mind from years ago. I am sitting at a desk in a very cold room on a farm. I was...
A Poet Speaks: Of Myth, Memory, Mentee and Mentor
Dawn breaks. Night falls.
What is the correct path, and who is to say what that is exactly? To be good, to do good, to...
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...