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"The book understands that historical memory is not only about the great events that determine the fate of nations, nor about the kings whose names survive in official records. It is also about the people who prepared their meals, carried their water, watched them sleep and eventually watched them die."

"Myth is everywhere. The Little Mermaid, Sappho, Medusa, Diana, Leda, the Queen of Sheba, Lot’s wife, Rumpelstiltskin, Baba Yaga, Charon, Ra, Baron Samedi, Hermes and Hamlet all pass through."

This year, #ReadingAfricaWeek follows the roads, oceans, and page-breaks that African literature has always traveled. Click here for more information!

"Fugard and the Serpent Players are like our spiritual guides. Their presence helps us see and hear many more wonderful people who have touched our great country."

Examining Zuma’s personality and ethnic background, The Zuma effect shows why populism and ethnic mobilisation are so powerful – and dangerous.

"The highlight of the Poetry Africa Festival was the 5th World Poetry Slam Championship, with 38 countries competing for this title."

Known as "Korea’s Nobel Prize in Literature", the Pak Kyongni Prize was established in 2011 by the Toji Cultural Foundation, chaired by Kim Se-hee, as Korea’s first international literary prize and writers’ prize.

"For a woman who died in 1920, Olive Schreiner is having quite a year."

Mphuthumi Ntabeni talks to Arderne about the inspiration behind the novel, her writing process and how she deals with family and friends who might feel that their stories could just have slipped into these pages. Then Arderne deftly turns the tables and starts asking the questions.

Unisa’s Department of Afrikaans and Theory of Literature is hosting a seminar to celebrate the publication of the book Soweto’s Theatre of Resistance 1984–1994, by Andile Xaba.

"In my own opinion, the task before writers, then, is not simply to keep machines out of literature, but to preserve the human responsibilities that literature demands, whether or not machines have become part of the process."

Ninth AMAWZI Literature Heritage Ecology Conference, indigenous knowledge systems for a new era of enlightenment exploring the potential of IKS to resolve current social-ecological crises.

Invitation: Road to the ballot – three leading South African journalists unpack the state of the nation and what it means for us.

"That is a gift from the grave of history, not the promise that the dead can be restored, or that the past can be made innocent, but the knowledge that their lives need not end with them. Someone can still bear witness."

Apartheid’s granddaughter is not a story of guilt or absolution, but of courage and repair. It’s an invitation to white South Africans to face their inheritance with honesty and courage.

Proposed chapters can be in any language and take the form of creative writing (poems, short stories or other texts), personal reflective essays, academic studies or translations of her poems (three to six poems, with an accompanying reflective or academic essay on the translation process).

"This latest wave of gender-based violence has sent me back to a book I read a few years ago: Cristina Rivera Garza’s Grieving: Dispatches from a wounded country, translated by Sarah Booker. I haven’t been able to put it down since."

"She heard the beep of an electronic lock, assuming it was the room next door. Her own room door opened. Shockingly, unexpected."

"The problem was that Benny had no intention of sticking to his minor role. Every time he walked onto the page and into a scene, he lit it up and made things happen."

"It is much more than a singular thriller or whodunnit, having the depth of conflicting and diverse multi-voiced stories that link to Shalom Court in an impoverished society."