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November 21, 2022

African Comics Cross into Literature

Pearl of the Sea and KARIBA started as animation but ended as graphic novels—the former the first by Triggerfish Studios. Graphic novels are a “three-dimensional experience of literature,” said their publisher, Catalyst Press’ Jessica Powers. “Maybe we’re on the cusp of a trend across the African continent.”
Otosirieze

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Keletso Mopai

April 9, 2022

Inside The Cheeky Natives, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane & Alma-Nalisha Cele’s Archive of Intentionality

The lawyer and the doctor on podcasting, documenting South Africa’s Black voices, and getting African literature its own due.
Otosirieze
Alma-Nalisha Cisse (L) and Letlhogonolo Mogkoroane (R) of The Cheeky Natives.

March 11, 2022

Mary Watson Wins Philida Literary Award

It goes to “an oeuvre of literary excellence” in South Africa.
Paula Willie-Okafor
Mary Watson. From writersandartists.co.uk.

February 12, 2022

Your Guide to Damon Galgut’s 9 Books of Fiction

The Booker Prize winner is on the February 2022 cover of Open Country Mag.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Damon Galgut's The Promise

February 12, 2022

The Methods of Damon Galgut

How the South African naturalist, a prodigy, innovated major work on masculinity, race, memory, and time—and then, at the tip of his 40-year career, came the Booker Prize.
Otosirieze
Damon Galgut by Michaela Verity

February 10, 2022

Damon Galgut Is on the February 2022 Cover of Open Country Mag

In his 40th year as a writer, last year’s Booker Prize winner talks to Open Country Mag about his artistic process, and his novel The Promise.
Otosirieze
Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Damon Galgut

January 27, 2022

C.A. Davids’ How to Be a Revolutionary Explores Personal and Political Loyalties

The novel, set in South Africa and China, has been compared to fiction by Teju Cole and Zinzi Clemmons.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
C.A. Davids by Geena Wilkinson

November 11, 2021

Poet Athol Williams Flees South Africa

He testified before the Zondo Commission. “I implicated 39 parties in my testimony so threats could come from many places,” he said. “I’ve faced alienation by corporate South Africa, from the university where I taught ethics. . . and I’ve been let down by many friends.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Athol Williams. Source: sapeople.com.

July 26, 2021

The Cheeky Natives to Host #PoetrySpace on Twitter Spaces

The event will feature notable South African poets reading their work.
The Cheeky Natives
Koleka Putuma. From groene.nl.

July 19, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Deliver VC’s Open Lecture at University of Cape Town

The event, announced by the Vice Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will be virtual.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

April 11, 2021

Surfacing Brings Together Black, Feminist South African Thinkers

Edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon, the country’s first essay collection on contemporary Black feminisms features Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, and Yewande Omotosho.
Emmanuel Esomnofu
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa.

March 19, 2021

Mark Gevisser’s Long Mission of Queer Visibility

In his most recent book, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, the South African journalist and activist shows a world in redescription. And he has been doing that for decades, engaging power and who wields it and who is abused by it.
Otosirieze
Mark Gevisser (R) and Tiwonge "Aunty" Chimbalanga (L) at the Khlulisa Community Garden, where she works. Credit: Ellen Elmendorp.

January 7, 2021

New Book Collects Columns by Noni Jabavu, South Africa’s Pioneering Black Female Memoirist

The author of the memoirs Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts and The Ochre People: Scenes from a South African Life and editor of The New Strand was ahead of her time.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home.

November 21, 2022

African Comics Cross into Literature

Pearl of the Sea and KARIBA started as animation but ended as graphic novels—the former the first by Triggerfish Studios. Graphic novels are a “three-dimensional experience of literature,” said their publisher, Catalyst Press’ Jessica Powers. “Maybe we’re on the cusp of a trend across the African continent.”
Otosirieze

April 29, 2022

Keletso Mopai

Keletso Mopai Owns Her Story and Her Voice

The author of the short story collection If You Keep Digging on activism, the social power of literature, and South Africa’s need for change.
Paula Willie-Okafor

April 9, 2022

Alma-Nalisha Cisse (L) and Letlhogonolo Mogkoroane (R) of The Cheeky Natives.

Inside The Cheeky Natives, Letlhogonolo Mokgoroane & Alma-Nalisha Cele’s Archive of Intentionality

The lawyer and the doctor on podcasting, documenting South Africa’s Black voices, and getting African literature its own due.
Otosirieze

March 11, 2022

Mary Watson. From writersandartists.co.uk.

Mary Watson Wins Philida Literary Award

It goes to “an oeuvre of literary excellence” in South Africa.
Paula Willie-Okafor

February 12, 2022

Damon Galgut's The Promise

Your Guide to Damon Galgut’s 9 Books of Fiction

The Booker Prize winner is on the February 2022 cover of Open Country Mag.
Uzoma Ihejirika

February 12, 2022

Damon Galgut by Michaela Verity

The Methods of Damon Galgut

How the South African naturalist, a prodigy, innovated major work on masculinity, race, memory, and time—and then, at the tip of his 40-year career, came the Booker Prize.
Otosirieze

February 10, 2022

Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Damon Galgut

Damon Galgut Is on the February 2022 Cover of Open Country Mag

In his 40th year as a writer, last year’s Booker Prize winner talks to Open Country Mag about his artistic process, and his novel The Promise.
Otosirieze

January 27, 2022

C.A. Davids by Geena Wilkinson

C.A. Davids’ How to Be a Revolutionary Explores Personal and Political Loyalties

The novel, set in South Africa and China, has been compared to fiction by Teju Cole and Zinzi Clemmons.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

November 11, 2021

Athol Williams. Source: sapeople.com.

Poet Athol Williams Flees South Africa

He testified before the Zondo Commission. “I implicated 39 parties in my testimony so threats could come from many places,” he said. “I’ve faced alienation by corporate South Africa, from the university where I taught ethics. . . and I’ve been let down by many friends.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

July 26, 2021

Koleka Putuma. From groene.nl.

The Cheeky Natives to Host #PoetrySpace on Twitter Spaces

The event will feature notable South African poets reading their work.
The Cheeky Natives

July 19, 2021

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. From Chimamanda.com.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Deliver VC’s Open Lecture at University of Cape Town

The event, announced by the Vice Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, will be virtual.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

April 11, 2021

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa.

Surfacing Brings Together Black, Feminist South African Thinkers

Edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon, the country’s first essay collection on contemporary Black feminisms features Panashe Chigumadzi, Sisonke Msimang, and Yewande Omotosho.
Emmanuel Esomnofu

March 19, 2021

Mark Gevisser (R) and Tiwonge "Aunty" Chimbalanga (L) at the Khlulisa Community Garden, where she works. Credit: Ellen Elmendorp.

Mark Gevisser’s Long Mission of Queer Visibility

In his most recent book, The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers, the South African journalist and activist shows a world in redescription. And he has been doing that for decades, engaging power and who wields it and who is abused by it.
Otosirieze

January 7, 2021

Noni Jabavu: A Stranger at Home.

New Book Collects Columns by Noni Jabavu, South Africa’s Pioneering Black Female Memoirist

The author of the memoirs Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts and The Ochre People: Scenes from a South African Life and editor of The New Strand was ahead of her time.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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