Mikaela Erskog

Stories by: Mikaela Erskog

(Undated) In 1975, Miriam Tlali became the first African woman novelist to be published in South Africa. (Photograph by Fairlady/Brett Eloff)

The critical legacy of activist writer Miriam Tlali

Too often remembered only as South Africa’s first black woman novelist, Tlali illuminated the lives of workers living and labouring under racial capitalism.

By: Mikaela Erskog
21 Nov 2018