How many people have travelled from Cape to Cairo over the years? Some have become famous, some have stayed in the background. Some have travelled on foot, some used a pushbike, others used a car. Ton van der Lee has joined the long list of travellers. For the writer of this book Africa was not … Continue reading review DE AFRIKAANSE WEG
review DE BOERENOORLOG
The Boerenoorlog (or Boer War, or Second Boer War or Anglo-Boer War or South African War) only lasted three years but made a lasting impression in South Africa and abroad. The Dutch historian and writer wrote about the Dutch colonial legacy in the 19th and 20th and took time to return to the 19th century … Continue reading review DE BOERENOORLOG
review SUNDOWNERS
As far as I could trace this is the debut novel by Lesley Lokko (Dundee, Scotland, 1964), a trained architect, who spend part of her childhood in Ghana, when she was 17 years young she went to a boarding school in the United Kingdom. After a lond career of studies and teaching positions at many … Continue reading review SUNDOWNERS
review CAPE TOWN COOLIE
The London-born writer Réshard Gool (1931 – ?) describes in this novel ‘Cape Town Coolie’ a vibrant community in Cape Town, at the southern most tip of South Africa. People from all different kinds of backgrounds and status in life and education mix freely and enjoy life and love. The novel is set in the … Continue reading review CAPE TOWN COOLIE
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