How We Could Have Stopped Climate Change, But Did Not.
In Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth he accounts for the past failures of politicians and others to stop climate change. Looking back at...
‘The Enforcers’ Digs Deep Into Cape Town’s Criminal Underworld
Here is the Cape Town underworld laid bare, explored through the characters who control the “protection” industry – the bouncers and security...
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s ‘Patsy’ Is A Brave Take On Freedom And Motherhood
Societies have reproduced motherhood almost as a state of martyrdom. In becoming mothers, women are expected to forfeit themselves and adhere to...
9 Poems That Reveal Nelson Mandela’s Impact
A fallen icon can never truly die. They are memorialised in the work of artists, the pens of history, and the lips...
Conjuring Soft Magic With Storyteller Upile Chisala
“Growing up, I never read books by black women,” the Malawian storyteller Upile Chisala told an audience at the Sandton Exclusive Books...
8 Summer Books To Chase Away The Winter Blues
Winter time in South Africa is when the days are cold and the nights are long. This time of the year can...
Tracing The History Of Domestic Workers Through Literature
Domestic work in South Africa is work that is fraught with racial and class tension. It lies at a unique intersection of...
The Harry Potter Books Are Timeless, JK Rowling Not So Much
COMMENTAsk any 90s kid and they are likely to say that the Harry Potter books were a big...
The Book Stokvel: Growing Support For African Literature
It is often said that the reading culture in South Africa is very poor. Young and old people are just not reading...
Harris Dousemetzis On Telling The TRUE Story Of “The Man Who...
“The Man Who Killed Apartheid” is a book aiming to contribute to “a post-colonial intellectual history of South Africa.” It is book...
Queens Of The Kingdom: A Portrait Of Saudi Women
BOOK REVIEWThe Saudi Arabian woman is veiled in mystery: global media narratives paint her as locked in a...
Author Hafsah Faizal: “Representation Is Not A Fad”
New author Hafsah Faizal joins an illustrious list of authors writing representative fantasy books. Think Sabaa Tahir. Tomi Adeyemi. Renee Ahdieh. Her...
Soniah Kamal Talks Setting Pride And Prejudice In Pakistan
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is perhaps the most beloved amongst classic English literature. There have been prequels, sequels, and variations of...
The Origins Of The South African Students Organisation
BOOK EXTRACTDuring 2015 and 2016 student protests swept across South Africa campuses. In her new book...
Our 10 Favourite Books By Muslim Women
Representation matters, especially in a world where ‘Muslim woman’ is a highly politicised identity. Muslim women are painted as submissive and oppressed,...
Thabang Motsohi: Why The ANC Fails
“The African National Congress (ANC) is going to be divided, it’s going to split. The split is inevitable when you have ideological...
It’s REALLY Not About The Burqa
COLUMN/REVIEWIt’s Not About The Burqa - a collection of writings - edited by Mariam Khan tells beautiful...
Hlumelo Biko: “ I Have Reimagined The Africa I Want To...
BOOK EXTRACTSlavery, colonialism, imperialism, and apartheid have fundamentally unbalanced the values and self-concept of Africans. There must be...
Funda Sonke Wants Young People Involved In The Reading Revolution
Nal’ibali is an organisation which wants to get South Africa reading, by organising the annual South African version of World Read Aloud...
What It Takes To Write About Mental Disorders At 10 Years...
AS TOLD TOeThekwini Municipality held its third Articulate Africa Book and Art Fair, the flagship Literary and...
