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‘Historical fiction is a way of fighting rootlessness’—Ayesha Harruna Attah discusses her new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga

August 6, 2018August 6, 2018Jennifer Malec1 Comment on ‘Historical fiction is a way of fighting rootlessness’—Ayesha Harruna Attah discusses her new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga

Ayesha Harruna Attah’s new novel, The Hundred Wells of Salaga, has just been published by Cassava Republic Press. She chatted…

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[City Editor] The place of the ancestors: Niq Mhlongo leaves the city to walk the hills of Mapungubwe

September 4, 2017September 18, 2017Niq Mhlongo1 Comment on [City Editor] The place of the ancestors: Niq Mhlongo leaves the city to walk the hills of Mapungubwe

The JRB’s City Editor Niq Mhlongo takes some time out from sitting under his apricot tree in Soweto to visit…

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