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Londiwe Ntshele
Jun 16, 20154 min read
Africa’s Songbird
In Jazz there are those singers who are unafraid to do something truly different. They will sing against the grain, or play in a new way...
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Londiwe Ntshele
Feb 7, 20154 min read
Language is a meeting place, a point of confrontation, between the individual and the social. André
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting” Milan Kundera as quoted by André Brink in Writing In A...
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Londiwe Ntshele
Jul 15, 20146 min read
Whose literature is it anyway?
It was inevitable that the defiance, dissent, resistance and protest against Apartheid should be reflected in South Africa’s literary...
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Londiwe Ntshele
Sep 29, 20125 min read
Some thoughts on why I started The Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast
By Victor Dlamini It is the age we live in that gives one that rush of blood to the head – and you suddenly feel as if you were a David...
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Londiwe Ntshele
Aug 9, 20126 min read
South Africa Finds Its Literary Voice
Portrait of a Nobel Laureate By all accounts South African literature is enjoying its finest hour. Even as the scandal of dumped and...
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