Khanya Khondlo Mtshali

@kublakhanya

Khanya Khondlo Mtshali is a freelance writer and critic covering literature, history, politics, culture, fashion and art.

Stories by: Khanya Khondlo Mtshali

Culture

When entrepreneurship self-help isn’t enough

By presenting poverty as a choice out of which it is possible to claw your way through sheer willpower, self-help books fail to address social inequality.

By: Khanya Khondlo Mtshali
26 Aug 2019

18 July 1965: Nadine Gordimer (left) and ‘Drum’ magazine journalist and writer Nat Nakasa. (Photograph by Drum Photographer/BAHA/Africa Media Online)

Culture

Nat Nakasa’s Johannesburg

The exiled ‘fringe countryman’ wrote intimate essays about black experiences in apartheid Joburg, creating an insightful retrospective of the city in the 1950s and 1960s.

By: Khanya Khondlo Mtshali
14 May 2019

Culture

Will write for praise (but not happily)

Debates about African writing are ongoing but how about a question that’s seldom asked: what about the money?

By: Khanya Khondlo Mtshali
30 Jan 2019