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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansIt's The festive season though the country is still on lockdown, however the festive season has and is always regarded as a time of the year where people consume a lot of food because people spend most of their time at home or on the road. However wherever everyone finds themselves during the festive you will always catch them with so...
There has in recent times been a steep rise of nationalism that has permeated the world. The divorce of Britain from the European Union is one manifestation of this. The rise of Boris Johnson and his populist right-wing politics is a further exemplar of this. In the United States, Trump and his politics are what can be termed as extrem...
The River Between is a novel by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o and was published in 1965 as part of the African Writers Series which included other influential African authors. It is of a story set in Kenya at the dawn of colonisation and centres around two neighbouring villages, Kameno and Makuyu each propped up by their respective r...
Chinua Achebe’s debut novel is the most widely read among modern African literature. It has been translated in over 50 languages and has been accessed on a global scale. It is a fictional precolonial account of Igbo life and reads as a beguiling exposition of Achebe’s divine gift as a social engineer. Things Fall Apart is divided into ...
The Former Miss South Africa Ntandoyenkosi Kunene has teamed up with PhD candidate and Lecturer Thokozane Dyosini. Together they co-authored a children’s novel titled; Cory in the Universe. The book was launched virtually in September and the content thereof has been developed for children between 9 – 15 years of age. The book seeks...
In his new book, “Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies”, award-winning journalist Jonathan Ancer explores why it is that spies spy. This interest, and this book, follow on the publication in 2017 of his acclaimed book, Spy. Unco...
Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, was the most influential and studied American author of her generation. Born as Chloe Wofford in Ohio in 1931, she graduated in 1953 with a B.A. in English from Howard University, a historically black...