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In her new book Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience, Zukiswa Wanner recounts the harrowing final hours of a civilian flotilla intercepted while attempting to break the blockade of Gaza

So Close to Gaza: Inside a Night the Gaza Flotilla Didn’t Reach Shore

In her new book Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience, Zukiswa Wanner recounts the harrowing final hours of a civilian flotilla intercepted while attempting to break the blockade of…

‘Gogo is too much’: Zukiswa Wanner is the author of several novels, including Men of the South, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.

Discover God’s gift to women

This is an edited extract from prolific writer Zukiswa Wanner’s new novel, Love Marry Kill

Troy Onyango’s We Are The Water People

Audible’s new stories from Africa

Audiobooks narrated in authentic voices slowly start featuring on the company’s releases

Organised by author Zukiswa Wanner, the virtual literary festival takes place from March 23 to 30. (Brian Otieno/ The New York Times)
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Afrolit Sans Frontières: Stories and writers in the comfort of your living room

Zukiswa Wanner has organised a virtual literary festival, from March 23 to 30, to help readers and writers struggling with self-isolation

Artists perform during the Chale Wote street art festival in Accra, on August 21, 2016. – Some 200 african artists display their work from August 18 to 21, 2016, in the Ghanaian capital. (Ruth McDowall / AFP)

Accra: An Outsider’s Brief Perspective

"Maybe we see possibilities in each other’s countries that we don’t see in our own."

(John McCann)

Write the future with young adults

Leaders of this continent need to pay attention to the intellectual need of the majority of the population.

The decision by the rescue practitioners to place workers on leave and suspend domestic flights follows heated negotiations between the rescue practitioners and labour unions earlier in the week regarding the airline’s retrenchment process.

Border delays because officials can

Four hours after our arrival in Lagos, the immigration officials must have felt they had sufficiently flexed their muscles

‘The friend and her colleagues

There’s no sweetness in Kenya’s sugar

A drama worthy of a Connie and Shona Ferguson production

Residents of Protea Glen take part in the current land invasion

I voted yes for land expropriation

In 1994, 86% of land was white-owned. There had been an agreement that 30% would be transferred by 1999, the date has been shifted to 2025.

About 22% of Birmingham residents are Muslim. Significant

Black Panther is more than just representation

It has awoken in me a sense of pride and dignity I had no idea I had lost from all those many years of being erased in international public discourse

Tradition: Xhosa initiate Fezikhaya Tselane

A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers

"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".

There are parallels between the relationships of Zimbabwe and South Africa with their liberation war veterans.

The house of stone: A parable

"Citizens were told to tighten their belts while the political class loosened theirs because their stomachs had become too large".

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela makes a presentation to members of the NCOP Ad Hoc Committee on the Protection of State Information Bill in Parliament.

Some are more valid than others

White critics are often put on a pedestal — even when they’re telling us things we already know

Africa’s writer NgugiwaThiong’o.

We need our own Nobel and an academy

We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.

The various components of the books value chain — spanning writers, publishers, printers, booksellers and distributors — are having to get by using the digital sphere.

What makes a good bookstore?

A trip to find the best shops for African literature raised the question of what makes a bookstore worth visiting.

An MP has threatened that veteran politician

Three countries. Three heartbreaks. One week

To be a woman in Kenya, South Africa or Zimbabwe means to be in perpetual fear of some form of abuse at the hands of men

Observer: Teju Cole has the ability to read closely and make sense of a writer’s ideas.

A case for curiosity and generosity

Many good writers appear to be solipsists, selfish and even competitive, and unkind. These writers will remain good but will never be great.

Two sides of one coin

Southern African authors Zukiswa Wanner and Valerie Tagwira should take a leaf from each other’s latest books, says Percy Zvomuya.

Content for the continent

<i>African Writing Online</i>’s inaugural issue features Caine Prize winners Brian Chikwava, Helon Habila, local writer Zukiswa Wanner and others. Percy Zvomuya speaks to the…