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Rémy Ngamije is a Rwandan-born Namibian novelist, short story writer, essayist, columnist, and photographer. His debut novel “The Eternal Audience…

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‘Motherhood is not for me, because what if – like heart disease and haemophila – the ability to abandon one’s…

‘She comes to me in snatches – I remember pieces of her laugh, the look she gave when she was…

Dr Danai Mupotsa is a lecturer in the field of African Literature. As a scholar and a writer she is…

Lidudumalingani first caught our attention with his 2016 Caine Prize winning short story, “Memories we lost”, which discusses mental illness…

In the latest episode of the Cheeky Natives, Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele sat with the incomparable Zukiswa Wanner to discuss books,…

Hlomu, Zandile and Naledi. Three seemingly random names but whose stories our readers are so invested in, you’d swear they…

Toni Morrison says “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you…

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“This book is both personal and political – it is about how I was made by the liberation struggle and…

“This is the story of how I came to have an abnormal penis. So there you have it: my genital…

“If we going to heal let it be glorious” – Warsan Shire The Cheeky Natives sat down with Lebo Mashile…

‘Being black, woman and alive is a metaphysical dilemma, I haven’t quite conquered yet’ -Ntozake Shange is quoted as saying….

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.” – Toni Morrison On this…

‘My mother died seven times before she gave birth to me. I am grateful for that corpse that somehow always…