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Ahmet Sait Akcay

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Ahmet Sait Akcay

‘Cape Fever’: When fiction fills the gaps of history

Through Soraya’s journey, Cape Fever explores identity, resilience and the hidden histories of Cape Malays in post-war South Africa

Recovering the past, facing the future

In 2119, McEwan imagines a world shaped by climate disaster, war and lost knowledge, where the search for a poem becomes an urgent philosophical quest

Silence of the enslaved

Ashraf Kagee’s Song of the Slave Girl reimagines Cape slavery through emotion, love and loss, giving voice to histories erased from official memory

Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah at LiteretureXchange Festival (2025
Denmark) Photo: Hreinn Gudlaugsson

Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Theft: A story of servitude, survival and the search for home

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah returns with Theft, a moving portrait of loss, longing, and the elusive idea of home.

Taking back Africa’s wealth

Can the continent shift from resource dependency to industrial power? A new book explores a bold roadmap for reclaiming economic sovereignty

Francis Nyamnjoh’s novel a new grace for the old order

Echoes of Grace is a coming-of-age tale where faith, ancestry, and mentorship shape a young girl’s path to purpose

Holding the powerful to account: War crimes and the new global reckoning

From Nuremberg to The Hague and Rwanda to Gaza, author traces the relentless pursuit of justice for humanity’s darkest crimes

Making Knowledge African: Suren Pillay and the struggle to decolonise the university

A timely call to rethink how African history and knowledge can reclaim space in global narratives

Africa’s writer NgugiwaThiong’o.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o as town crier of Africa

The Kenyan writer challenged Western influence on African culture and history, highlighting heritage and resilience

Writing against the grain: Adekeye Adebajo’s Africa

Informed, provocative, and hopeful — Adebajo’s work resists reduction, embracing Africa’s plurality and persistent spirit

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, regarded as the pioneer of postcolonial studies in Africa, never ceased to be a voice of the continent. Photo: Michael Runkel/Robert Harding Heritage/AFP

The contrapuntal voice of Africa, Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, has died

The Congolese philosopher, poet, novelist and bold advocate of African knowledge has died in the US where he lived and taught at Sandford and Duke universities since 1979