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Africa

‘Performing poetry is a naked affair, but I’d rather be naked than take up residence behind a mask’—Khadija Tracey Heeger in conversation with Makhosazana Xaba

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This is the tenth in a series of long-form interviews by Patron Makhosazana Xaba to be hosted on The JRB,…

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Book excerpts

‘The language we know as Afrikaans today owes much to the enslaved people who spoke it’—Read an excerpt from Coloured: How Classification Became Culture

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The JRB presents an excerpt from Coloured: How Classification Became Culture by Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel. ColouredTessa Dooms,…

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Poetry

Writing Athlone—Gabeba Baderoon’s latest poetry collection The History of Intimacy maps the small hurts of apartheid, writes Toni Giselle Stuart

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Toni Giselle Stuart reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s poetry collection The History of Intimacy, which won the 2019 University of Johannesburg Main…