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Bless Me Father is the true story of an incredible South African life.

Nancy slaps palms with her friends and laughs a lot. She wears bell-bottom pants which swing when she walks through Uhuru Gardens.

Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospre, a semi-literate Mimbolander who is searching for

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities.

The strength of Mandela the Spear and Other Poems lies in Okai's burning desire to celebrate the black experience and culture, through the iconic figures who symbolize those struggles and triu

Love Interrupted is set partially in the university town of Grahamstown and partially in rural Limpopo. The stories in this collection have an intimate feel, like conversations eavesdropped on.

Maybe it was an error for crime reporter Maggie Cloete to ignore the call from the AIDS worker, before someone put four bullets in his chest.

The collection of poems is an intriguing reflection of the sometimes torturous evolution of inner self which so many South Africans face as they struggle to find who they are in a multicultural soc

As Ama's wedding day approaches and her friends––Beauty, Matlakala and Pamela are there to lend varying degrees of support.

Dieudonné's life is spun from the threads of one of Africa's grand moral dilemmas, in which personal responsibility is intertwined with the social catharsis occasioned by ambitions of dom

Unsentimental and unselfpitying, this short but powerful novel by Chris Mlalazi vivifies an account by Rudo, a fourteen-year-old school girl who observes the terrifying events that take place in he

The Last to Leave is Margaret Clough's second collection of poetry.

Female genital mutilation is the excruciating and damaging experience that a lot of women in many cultures across Africa and in many other parts of the world suffer.

2004 Caine Prize was awarded to the short story Seventh Street Alchemy by Brian Chikawava. The story is in this anthology, Writing Still.

"Failure is not in my vocabulary," says Libertina Inaaviposa Amathila, medical doctor, leading member of Namibia's liberation movement SWAPO, and Cabinet Minister for 20 years.