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Street life: Niq Mhlongo captures the hustle, bustle, sights, sounds and vibrancy of the Johannesburg CBD in his latest novel The City Is Mine

A vivid picture of Joburg

Every corner tells a story in this novel exploring themes of identity, power and personal ambition

Intimate city: Niq Mhlongo’s new novel about Mangi
and his fiancée Aza is set in Joburg. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Darkly funny tale of two cities

This is an edited extract from SA author Niq Mhlongo’s new novel The City Is Mine

“Drain our dignity”.Masixole Feni’s images of Khayelitsha capture the way people have been able to exist and have meaningful lives under oppressive conditions.

Artists must strive to reimagine ways of portraying and inhabiting ikasi

An overemphasis on ‘escaping’ the township robs us of the nuanced account of its spirit and a chance to create a habitable space in the margins

Siphiwo Mahala – author of Red Apple Dreams & Other Stories – with his grandmother, Shinana Thembani, whom he describes as ‘an exceptional storyteller‘. (Supplied)

History begins in her stories

Like the tales told by my grandmother, the short story invites us to take part in its telling

Kenyan motorists drive in heavy traffic in the country’s capital, Nairobi (Photo: AFP)

People colour a journey of book stops

Zukiswa Wanner spends time in Tanzania and decides that it is a place she could live in because of its people.

Writer Niq Mhlongo tackles more than the mystical

SA author Niq Mhlongo’s latest book "Way Back Home" probes the confluence of binaries and the centrality of the mystical in our lives.

Author’s notes: Niq Mhlongo

Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home is his coming of age as a novelist.

Words for the birds

<em>Remotewords</em> aims to "disseminate literary statements" around the world through satellite mapping programmes.

A stunted af(fair)

If the Cape Town Book Fair is to mean something beyond an exercise in retailing it needs to seize opportunities to be unique, writes Darryl Accone.