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Damilare Kuku: Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
In Only Big Bum Bum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku introduces a protagonist, Témì with big plans for a drastic change to her appearance in the form of a BBL.
In her debut novel, Damilare examines familial relationships, beauty standards and the quest for desirability in modern day Nigeria
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18 Oct: Damilare Kuku: Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
In Only Big Bum Bum Matters Tomorrow, Damilare Kuku introduces a protagonist, Témì with big plans for a drastic change to her appearance in the form of a BBL. In her debut novel, Damilare examines familial relationships, beauty standards and the quest for desirability in modern day Nigeria. Témì is a young university student, grappling with her body image all while navigating loss and complex family dynamics including her older sister’s sudden disappearance prior. Her journey towards the BBL unravels a slew of other issues including the weight of physical beauty, the desire to be attractive and what it means…
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29 Sep: Damilare Kuku: Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
In a collection of 12 short stories, Damilare Kuku demonstrates the almost Sisyphean task that is navigating love, relationships and life in Lagos Damilare deftly uses humour and wit to explore the difficult themes of love, loss, friendship and romance, often catching the reader unaware. As a testament to the universality of these stories, as reader you or someone you know may have encountered one of the mad men Damilare has written about. Of course the women are not exempt from the afflictions of humanity, many of them being difficult and somewhat exhausting in a node to the realities of…
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13 Sep: Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel: Coloured: How Classification Became Culture
oloured as an ethnicity and racial demographic is intertwined with the creation of today’s South Africa. Yet often coloured communities are disdained as people with no clear heritage or culture – as not “black enough” or “white enough”. Coloured by Tessa Dooms and Lynsey Ebony Chutel, challenges this notion and presents a different angle to that narrative. It delves into the history of coloured people as descendants of indigenous Africans and a people whose identity was shaped by colonisation, slavery and apartheid. Coloured as an ethnicity was again in the spotlight following Tyla’s brilliant rise to fame on both side…
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23 Aug: Shubnum Khan:The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil
In a once majestic but now decaying mansion, itself a potent metaphor for the current state of Durban where it’s set, we meet the characters of Shubnum Khan’s latest novel. Originally developed as an ode to beauty, culture and heritage by its owner Akbar Ali Khan, who came to make his fortune in South Africa. In its current incarnation, the mansion has been converted to weary looking apartments with an assortment of residents each haunted by their own tragedies and pasts. With the latest edition being Bilal and his teenage daughter, Sana. In a mix of teenage angst and curiosity, Sana…
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