Tag: AfricanLiterature
The Big Five Cartel – No Honour Amongst Thieves
In order to get to the truth, we might have to burn the house down and rebuild it. It has been said that only rats come out to play at night. Yet eagles do not sleep. South Africa has been captured by criminals who seek to remain nameless. However, there is one man whom everyone fears.
Flying Cows and Other Traumas
This collection of short stories explores the breadth of magical realism, speculative fiction and fantasy. Twijnstra portrays women who succeed in the face of brutality. Black women lead these stories as protagonists, and they enter magical, terrifying and spellbinding worlds. These worlds span stories set in the past, present and future.
The House at 6001 – A Memoir of Uprising and Exile
On 16 June 1976, thousands of Black South African school children took to the streets of Soweto. They protested the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction under apartheid education. Police met the protests with brutal force. Many children never returned home. This day is now remembered as the start of the Soweto Uprising. It also echoed through 6001, the Orlando East home of Lebo Diseko’s family.
