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Star Rating: ★★★★★ 5/5 This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga Jacana Media, November 2018 Online Price: R246 This Mournable Body is the last of a trilogy that began with Nervous Conditions and was followed by The Book of Not. The reader should be privy to the contents of the first two books, especially […]
She walks in to the room full of Black women from all walks of life, young and old, all gathered at the UNISA Conference Centre in Ormonde to listen to the soft-spoken author of Nervous Conditions – filmmaker, playwright, poet and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga, who was hosted in the country by the Thabo Mbeki African […]
In a parallel argument to the ‘No Gays Please’ attitude to most YA texts, this week the Guardian discussed the whitewashing of book covers in order to prevent the cover harming the book sales. But Larbalestier believes the issues of “whitewashing” of covers, ghettoising of books by people of colour, and low expectations for these books are industry-wide. […]
