Friday, 24 March 2023
Bongani Kona is a writer and member of the curatorial team at the Archive of Forgetfulness project. His work has been broadcast on the BBC and appeared in publications and anthologies such as Chimurenga, The Baffler, Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction and Upshot: Stories of Financial Futures.
The writer’s second novel takes on memory, drawing together disparate threads across continents and epochs to construct a story with humanity at its heart.
Mandla Langa and Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s new novels, The Lost Language of the Soul and The Wanderers, intersect in their reflections on the lives of Umkhonto weSizwe freedom fighters.
The essays, letters and poems by the contributors to There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love question the roots and realities of the state in which America finds itself.
The Booker Prize longlist nominee homes in on the violence of colonialism and its afterlives in An Island, a novel about a lone lighthouse keeper confronted by a refugee who washes ashore.
As time passes in Damon Galgut’s new book, ‘The Promise’, lives and laws change, but a deathbed pledge keeps calling up the question of land and who has claim to it.