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‘The Broken River Tent’: ‘I chose resistance!’
APARTHEID

An extract from ‘The Broken River Tent’: ‘I chose resistance!’

In this extract from The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni, the protagonist, Phila, makes a fiery courtroom speech

  • Mphuthumi Ntabeni
5 min read
Earthly: Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s book traces Eastern Cape landscapes with their often bloody histories.
BLACKBIRD BOOKS

Mending severed histories with returning shades

This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life

  • Jane Rosenthal
8 min read