South Africa’s most beloved troubadour on new music, staying rooted in Mamelodi and why peace is worth singing about
The Kenyan writer challenged Western influence on African culture and history, highlighting heritage and resilience
The Kenyan writer is dead but his story will live on, the story of the colonialism and the betrayal of postcolonial elites and how to survive
His pen exposed injustice, honoured heritage and helped free the African imagination from colonial constraint
Not many knew of the unheralded Zanzibari author who has steadily produced 10 novels
The draft Bill proposes to shield academics and scholars who propagate racist and bigoted ideas
Through her praxis, Kholeka Shange interrogates the marginalisation of African languages in the academy
Katrina Esau’s The Ostrich and the Tortoise aims to preserve N|uu for its next generation of speakers
Names tossed about in the speculation include Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid, Canadian poet Anne Carson, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Hungary’s Peter Nadas and…
Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles
The first bid to place Africa at the heart of literary studies took place in Kenya
Africans can become citizens by acting democratically and claiming their identity
As by Fire’s hard look at the recent violence on campuses presents dire warnings and hope
Niq Mhlongo on writing about the present with a nod to the past, and the slices of life that sit waiting on every pavement of his childhood home
We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o says that reclaiming African languages lies at the heart of decolonisation, but it’s not enough
The internet was #blessed with images of Trevor Noah’s new Manhattan digs soon after he announced he’d be coming home for a show later this year.
Dystopian novels can only give us a hint of what Trump’s ‘whitelash’ might mean
‘Birth of a Dream Weaver’ is an apt title for Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s college years and becoming a writer.
To mark novelist Nadine Gordimer’s 90th birthday, Craig MacKenzie celebrates how her work has astutely interpreted the tenor of our times.
