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There’s nothing like the smell and feel of a good ol fashioned book. Besides, it’s through reading that we learn, reflect and remember. The Journalist welcomes bookworms to the new ‘books’ section of our site where we’ll bring you interviews with authors, book reviews and reading lists. Here you’ll find the best paperbacks to curl up with, and the ‘must have’ hardcovers to have on your bookcase.
We’ll celebrate the great African writers of our time, the likes of Sol Plaatje, whose Native Life in South Africa turns 100 this year; as well as commemorate literary giants such as Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri. Alan Paton, Steve Biko and Nadine Gordimer, Zakes Mda and Binyavanga Wainaina.
The literary greats live on through their work.
And even though technology is altering the way we consume our novels and bestsellers, and the age of social media has us consuming no more than 140 characters at a time, The Journalist will bring you the novelists, academics and intellectuals who, through their writing, recording and archiving, feed our souls with the pleasure of reading.
Cecil Rhodes as Amakwerekwere
#Rhodes Must Fall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa
We, the People: Insights of an Activist Judge
Albie Sachs launches his new book
No, Bob Dylan isn’t the first lyricist to win the Nobel
Rabindranath Tagore: A Bengali literary giant
The Black Consciousness novel ‘Amandla’
Experiences of black women during the 1976 student uprising
Beauty of the Heart book launch in Grahamstown
Q&A about Zubeida Jaffer’s latest book
The Magic of Childhood captured in Six African Novels
Tales of adventure
A Radical New Approach to the Field of Economics
“Suppose you were flown in from Mars and have to analyse capitalism”
Let’s Talk Frankly
Letters to Influential South Africans about the State of the Nation
Holding My Breath: Facing grief through writing
Ace Moloi talks about his latest book
‘Rape: A South African Nightmare’ by Dr Pumla Dineo Gqola
“Book is easy to read and difficult to swallow”
‘Write for social change’ says Ama Ata Aidoo
Literary greats speak out in the Eastern Cape.
Year of Chinua Achebe’s ‘A Man of the People’
Pambazuka This year, Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People celebrates its 50th anniversary. The writer’s fourth novel is the gripping satire through which he was perceived not only as the Father of African Literature, but also a prophet. A Man of the People is published in early January 1966. This is a few days before the military coup d’état that overthrows the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa civilian government in Nigeria, which the supposedly outgoing British occupation-governor had imposed on the...
Black Diamonds in the Rough
“At risk of always being someone’s pet project or lap dog”
Flora Nwapa and the Letter That Changed Nigerian Literature Forever
Ainehi Edoro In the early 1960s, Flora Nwapa sent Chinua Achebe a mail containing a manuscript. She probably didn’t imagine that much would come out of it. However, 50 years later, we celebrate Efuru, a feminist and cultural work; and the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published. Unlike most writers of […]
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