Kujenga’s Art of Building Together – In The Wake’s Album Launch © Deon-Simphiwe Rakaku Expectation as a human feature is naturally flawed. This entity, very easily and perhaps deceptively so as someone more cynical might say; promises a lot without any guarantees that...
Kalahari Marrakesh
Wriggle
By Jade Campbell There is a section for each animal. Labels in all-caps announce what they have become: cows recast as beef, etc. Creatures transformed into something different, necessarily less creaturely. The shelves bow under the weight....
Scatterlings of Africa
Scatterlings of Afric - travel essay - Lawrence WincklerDownload
Johan de Kirk’s a series of unfortunate events
By Thabiso Tshowa I Life is quite something, and it challenges billions of people on a daily basis. Some challenges are harder than others but the way I now see it after Gavin shared the story with me, ‘It’s not about how good a punch you packing but how many times...
Cake
By Jade Campbell I did not know him but I liked the way he could make himself cry. I felt I knew him when he did, and that he knew me too. He played the role of a wronged husband. At a small table in the dim light, the woman pretending to be his wife admitted to...
Balondemu: The Chosen Conqueror
By Joshua Omeke In the ancient kingdom of Buganda where the Bantu tribe resides, there roamed a joyous woman named Nantale, who fell for the charms of a native hunter whose name was Dembe. The couple united in the consecration of their families— engaged in native...
An Act of Vengeance
By Rosemund J. Handler ‘Pauline! The kitchen’s a catastrophe!’ That big word is one of Madam’s favourites, Pauline thinks sourly. Everything is a ‘catastrophe’ to Madam. She tells her friends on the telephone all the time how bad the whole world is to her and how good...
After The Burning Years: Freedom, Fugitivity and Manoeuvring Through Cemeteries of Abandoned Futures
By Sindiswa Busuku Keynote address to a conference held at Sol Plaatjie University on Language. Where to begin? Let me begin by saying I am terrified of you all, it seems at once rational and irrational. On the one hand, it is rational that I fear you all, because I...
The troubled soul and the yellow feather
by Partha Sarkar My brother met with an accident. I told my old friend, but he did not show any concern. And I did not mind it – everyone has his own tense chapter. But after a long time… he said, ‘Partha, we have to think different. The sceptre has been changing...
Babylon
by Bokang Kamvenhle
Threnody for a Queen in Four Parts – a short Opera
by Christine Coates