Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Makhosazana Xaba is a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, multi-genre anthologist, award-winning short story writer and poet. She edited Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018 (2019), the co-winner of the 2021 National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences Award in the non-fiction edited volume category.
The vastly different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond the subject matter.
In this short interview, poet Makhosazana Xaba speaks to fellow writer Natalia Molebatsi about dance as a metaphor for freedom and about how women can finally voice their truth.