In this link you will find a short story by the South African Keletso Mopai. She digs the earth as a geologist to uncover stories and bring these to the surface and share them with you.
There is nothing I loathe more than the idea that a piece of writing is “experimental”
The Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma tells in this interview about his latest book ‘A Stranger’s Pose’. One of the topics talked about is the cover picture. Why did Iduma choose this one?
‘Africa exists in the world, and the world has always been in Africa’
The South African Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu talkes about her debut novel ‘The theory of flight’ (2018) with Jennifer Malec. She has written her dissertation, but writing a novel is a different way of writing. In this article you will find this interview.
How to protect Africa
It happened in Soweto, one of the famous names in South Africa. The celebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie visited a book Festival and she was interviewed. In the past Chimamanda has made strong statements on the way Africans look at Africa. What did happen now in the talk she had with Pumla Dineo Gqola?
‘Intersectionality seems so blindingly obvious a notion’
In this interview the writer Zoë Wicomb talks with the editor of her ‘Race, Nation, Translation’, published in 2018. They delve into meaning of postcolonialism, intersectionality, postmodernism and feminism and the relation between these concepts.
books touched by Africa 