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Africa

‘What happens when one person’s truth is another’s blank stare?’—Muthi Nhlema chats to Ivor W Hartmann about his ZamaShort short story ‘Piss Corpse’

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Muthi Nhlema and Ivor W Hartmann discuss trust, inspiration, writer’s block, and Nhlema’s latest work ‘Piss Corpse’, which was selected…

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Biography & Memoir

‘Grief—a word that seemed too small to encompass the world I had been plunged into’—Read Sisonke Msimang’s essay from Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying

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In a new anthology on death and dying, Sisonke Msimang writes about the multiple losses faced when her mother passed…