The Regime- Looking In: South African Short Stories

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Yes, I am one of those speed-walkers.

I have the gear: No vests; I really am too old for that. Once a year I buy a new pair of Nikes or New Balances, a virtuous treat. On my outward journey, the sea lies to my left, grey or blue or silver. Here I sometimes pause to stretch on the strip of lawn, before continuing another fifteen minutes along the promenade as far as the public telephones.

I roll the newspaper tightly and hold it baton-like in one hand for the rest of the route home only unsatisfactory on the weekends, when the editions are too fat for comfort. No wallet or cellphone; although the promenade is busy and safe at that time, you can never be too careful. And I like to stay light. Please register or log in to comment. Remember me Forgotten password? Tlali studied at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg until it was subsequently closed to Black people during apartheid.

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Tlali then left to study in Lesotho but was unable to continue with her studies because of a lack of funds. She then became an office clerk and wrote her first novel Muriel at Metropolitan in Her subsequent books include Amandla , Mihloti , and Footprints in the Quag Here is her story: Ndebele has also written a number of highly influential essays on South African literature and culture, these were published in the collection Rediscovery of the Ordinary.

Taken during his inauguration at the University of Johannesburg. This man writes what he likes. Very little introduction is necessary when discussing the father of the Black Consciousness Movement. The movement was an instrument pivotal to the empowerment and mobilization of much of the urban black population in South Africa during in apartheid.

He has trained over journalists.

Mattera also has a doctorate in literature. Although reading this list one might find Adichie irrelevant to the theme, she has become by far an African novelist who has transformed the way in which young black readers in Africa have become attuned to literature. Never fails to entertain and never fails to get her message across. Easily one of the most celebrated poets in South Africa, Mhlophe has easily become synonymous with the music of liberation and the songs of freedom.

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She is known as a South African freedom fighter, activist, actor, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author. Well-travelled and globally celebrated, she continues to hold African idiomatic expressions and metaphors at the helm of her artistry. Her play, Have you seen Zandile?

He was born in Vrededorp, a suburb in Johannesburg but later left South Africa in This novel is a perceptive testimony to the plight of articulate women who live in social milieux dominated by attitudes and values that deny them their proper place. It is a sequence of reminiscences, some wistful, some bitter, recounted by a recently widowed Senegalese school teacher. Tropical Fish is a collection of linked short stories that explore the coming of age of three African sisters.

Ellen Banda-Aaku was born in Woking Surrey in A South African novelist, short story writer, journalist, and TV scriptwriter. Beukes, born in Johannesburg, currently lives in Cape Town. She worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago. The jaw-dropping, page-turning, critically-acclaimed book of the year: Kirby is lucky she survived the attack. She is sure there were other victims were less fortunate, but the evidence she finds is … impossible.

But what if the one that got away came back for him? Noviolet Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho.

Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in — who wants to be a terrible place of hunger and things falling apart? For Darling, that dream will come true. She works as a writer, editor, consultant, reviewer and broadcaster. Arranged chronologically, this anthology of writing spans from the Ancient Queen Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba, to popular contemporaries such as Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Buchi Emecheto, and includes many lesser known writers and anonymous traditional works that exemplify the oral tradition handed down through the generations.

This anthology brings together women from across the globe and besides translations from African languages it includes work originally written in Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Dangarembga was born in Bulawayo, Rhodesia now Zimbabwe , in but spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels at Hartzell High school, a missionary school in the Rhodesian town of Umtali now Mutare.

She later studied medicine at Cambridge University but returned home soon after Zimbabwe was internationally recognised in The semi-autobiographical novel focuses on the story of a Rhodesian family in post-colonial Rhodesia during the s. The novel attempts to illustrate the dynamic themes of race, class, gender, and cultural change during the post-colonial conditions of present-day Zimbabwe.

She has written many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital cutting in her society. She has been awarded honorary degrees on three continents. In , she won the North-South prize from the Council of Europe. But because I am a woman I have never had the courage to lift my hand.

Born to a peasant family in the Egyptian countryside, Firdaus suffers a childhood of cruelty and neglect. Her passion for education is ignored by her family, and on leaving school she is forced to marry a much older man.

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Desperate and alone, she takes drastic action. Is a Nigerian novelist who has published over 20 books. Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an Order of the British Empire in It tells the tragic story of Nnu-Ego, daughter of Nwokocha Agbadi and Ona, who had a bad fate with childbearing.

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