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Africa

A triumph of a novel—Itumeleng Molefi reviews Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s The First Woman

November 19, 2020December 28, 2020Itumeleng MolefiLeave a Comment on A triumph of a novel—Itumeleng Molefi reviews Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s The First Woman

The First Woman can be read as Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s answer to people who like to defend patriarchal power by…

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‘These were not men fighting, but corpses’—Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s Asylum

February 5, 2018February 15, 2018The JRBLeave a Comment on ‘These were not men fighting, but corpses’—Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s Asylum

Read an excerpt from Marcus Low’s debut novel Asylum—an existential thriller set in a quarantine facility in the arid Karoo—which…

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