Fanon’s famous book was translated to isiZulu by South African writer and scholar Makhosazana Xaba.
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The award-winning South African playwright has written a masterful short story about a woman having to play a challenging theatre role.
After a messy break-up, Mangi loses his job and finds himself destitute in downtown Johannesburg. That’s where his transformation begins.
Despite being detained by the apartheid government and his work being banned, Matthews never stopped writing truth to power and was celebrated around the world.
Repatriation of looted African art is no longer a marginalised topic, but reaps few rewards.
Kenya’s first post-independence president used his writings to present himself as a leader of an exceptional sort.
The Long Shadow of German Colonialism tells of a brutal history, and how this past lives on today.
The Road to the Village is the acclaimed Nigerian author’s third novel and is about ‘a young man seeking redemption in a country on fire’.
Tlotlo Tsamaase’s first novel adds to an exciting and growing body of African science fiction.
Her book Daughters of Africa brought black women writers into the literary canon.
The South African novelist messes with the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Wrapped in Rhythm powerfully uses the poems of Lebo Mashile as lyrics.
It reads powerfully in the Shona language, and is one of two of her books newly translated into it.
Dozens of young writers were published first at Weaver Press, which believed in fiction as a way of telling the truth.
The solo journey of a queer, black woman across the continent makes fascinating reading.
Swahili readers who have not encountered Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work in other languages are in for a great treat.
She reveals a range of African experiences: from traders to martial arts champions, visa overstayers to heart surgeons.
Driven by social justice, he showed that all people are capable of both good and evil.
Married couple Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene won for their powerful short story A Soul of Small Places.
For six decades he was a household name in urban Somalia.
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor, American University of Paris (AUP)
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York
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Senior research fellow, University of the Western Cape
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Fellow, King's College London
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Poet and lecturer in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Adjunct Professor, Richmond American International University
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Professor, University of Zululand
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Professor of Practice, Aga Khan University Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC)
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Associate Professor of literature, Makerere University
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
