Getaway Magazine

South Africa’s most beautiful libraries worth visiting for architecture, history and quiet escape

South Africa’s most beautiful libraries, from Cape Town and Pretoria to Makhanda and Durban, with architecture, history and ...
The Citizen

Book club: ‘Under a Blood Red Sky’ looks at South Africa’s dark past

Under a Blood Red Sky' shares the story of author Annemarie van Niekerk's life through apartheid, violence and forbidden love ...
The Conversation

South African poetry has a new digital archive – what’s behind the project

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

Understanding xenophobic violence through literature: key books to read

As xenophobic violence disrupts lives in South Africa, literature offers a vital perspective on migration and its challenges.
The Conversation

South African activist Frank Anthony wrote a novel that has been forgotten: why it shouldn’t have been

Detail of a photo of Frank Anthony (front left) on Robben Island with Walter Sisulu (front right). © Unknown/Courtesy Nelson Mandela Foundation How does it come ...
insider.si.edu

Oral literature & performance in southern Africa / edited by Duncan Brown

Making symmetrical knowledge possible : recent trends in the field of southern African oral performance studies / Isabel Hofmeyr -- Obscurity and exegesis in African oral praise poetry / Karin Barber ...
JSTOR Daily

Out of the Yellow/Black Peril Discourse: Humanizing China–Africa Relations in Mukuka Chipanta's A Casualty of Power

Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 58, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies (2021), pp. 623-646 (24 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325 ...