COVID-19, global rag Africa’s you literary guns
2020 showed all of us flames. The world underwent a series of traumas that saw us changing the…
Call for Submissions: BKO Poetry & Literary Magazine – Lesego Rampolokeng edition (Vol 4, No 4)
Thematic engagement: Horns for Hondo at Thirty: Reflecting on Lesego Rampolokeng’s Oeuvre Guest editor: Dr Danyela Dimakatso Demir (University…
Call for Submissions: BKO Poetry & Literary Magazine, Mohale Mashigo edition
Guest editor: Ms. Tumelo Motaung Poetry editor: Raphael d’Abdon Featured writer: Mohale Mashigo (The Yearning, 2016, Intruders, 2018)…
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@TJDema But woman’s work was never out of season. Sol T Plaatje i. Nkuku says my obsession with…
Warrior love in the forest – Mhudi’s song
Let me see if you can love me for if, it is a dream wake me not, rather…
Plaatje’s discursive battle against colonial pariahdom in Mhudi: A century later
The aim of this paper is to situate Mhudi in Plaatje’s broader argument against colonial pariahdom. Plaatje’s decision…
Cosmopolitanism in Mhudi – 100 years is a long time, but Mhudi is still relevant
The work of classical African literature pioneers such as Sol Plaatje and Thomas Mofolo progressed the intra-textual/intra-reflective complexities…
Mhudi and the beginnings of the historical novel in southern Africa
To make this review relevant to our era of the Covid-19 pandemic, I ransacked my literary mind trying…
Mhudi an epitome of raison d’être for the existence of the African writer
Mhudi was written in 1919 and 1920 by the towering Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876-1932) during his second stay…
VIDEO: How the CIA stole African literature and exerted American imperial influence in the 1950s and 60s
Some South African academics, readers and plebs have called me a conspiracy theorist for mentioning that the CIA…