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Mbali Sikakana

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A Window on Soweto by Joyce Sikakane-Rankin was part life writing and part sociology. Its publication in the UK in 1977 was hugely significant. (Image: Rand Daily Mail/Tiso Blackstar Group)
A WINDOW ON SOWETO

A distress signal from Soweto in 1977

A Window on Soweto by Joyce Sikakane-Rankin provided insight during apartheid censorship

  • Mbali Sikakana
8 min read
Daring: Toni Morrison chose to ‘freely love Black lives with a searing, interrogating gaze’ and by so doing made her mark as one of the United States’s most important writers. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
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The fraternity of lived genius

Author Toni Morrison’s words set high new standards for ethics

  • Mbali Sikakana
7 min read
2017 Abantu Book Festival. Going forward the festival is making connections with Africa’s authors, publishers and literary aficionados with a seemingly planned intentionality for northern expansion. Photo: Mmuso Mafisa
ABANTU BOOK FESTIVAL

The Pan-African focus of Abantu’s 2018 festival draws from a future past

The festival is making connections with Africa’s authors, publishers and literary aficionados with plans for northern expansion.

  • Mbali Sikakana
9 min read