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‘Thinking while black’—Read Grace A Musila’s essay from the award-winning book Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience

July 3, 2020December 21, 2020The JRB10 Comments on ‘Thinking while black’—Read Grace A Musila’s essay from the award-winning book Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience

‘How do we craft a healthy, dignified blackness, in a world where blackness is a captured identity location that needs…

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Africa

A kaleidoscopic novel of radiant beauty—Bongani Kona reviews the new English translation of Ondjaki’s Transparent City

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018Bongani KonaLeave a Comment on A kaleidoscopic novel of radiant beauty—Bongani Kona reviews the new English translation of Ondjaki’s Transparent City

In Transparent City, Ondjaki writes Angola not as an insignificant place in the margins of history but as if it…

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Africa

Brilliant, hilarious, eerily contemporary: Mbali Sikakana reflects on Fran Ross’s forgotten black feminist novel Oreo

October 2, 2017December 5, 2017Mbali Sikakana2 Comments on Brilliant, hilarious, eerily contemporary: Mbali Sikakana reflects on Fran Ross’s forgotten black feminist novel Oreo

Fran Ross’s wildly funny race satire, Oreo, was originally published in 1974, and instantly forgotten. Mbali Sikakana surveys the novel’s…

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