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Angela Makholwa: Critical But, Stable

Lerato never wanted to join her sister’s stupid social club. All those pretentious people spending hours showing off their wealth….

Terry-Ann Adams: Those Who Live in Cages

‘Everybody lives in a cage. Whether they know it or not is the question. I think that knowing that you…

Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda: No Be From Hia

‘My book was inspired by my multicultural background – Zambian, Nigerian, Jamaican and British. I wrote it at a time…

Brit Bennett: The Vanishing Half

“The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a…

Brandon Taylor and Paul Mendez: Real Life and Rainbow Milk

“It was a cool evening in late summer when Wallace, his father dead for several weeks, decided that he would…

Phumlani Pikoli: The Fatuous State of Severity

“The Fatuous State of Severity – a mouthful for most – was a state of mind I had learned to…

Lockdown Edition with Angela Makholwa: The Blessed Girl

(Part 1) Even as a young child, Angela Makholwa wanted to be a storyteller. Her first story was published at…

Lockdown Edition with Abi Daré: The Girl with the Louding Voice (Part 1)

Abi Daré grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and has lived in the UK for eighteen years. She studied law at the…

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: Friday Black

At the Open Book Festival, held in Cape Town in 2019, The Cheeky Natives sat down with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah…

Ming Cheau Lin: Yellow and Confused

Yellow And Confused released in 2019 is the latest offering from cookbook author, blogger and storyteller Ming-Cheau Lin. Yellow and…

Morgan Parker: Magical Negro

Morgan Parker is American poet, novelist, and editor and the author of the poetry collections Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me…

Mphuthumi Ntabeni: Broken River Tent

Written about the life and times of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief who was at the forefront of fighting British colonialism…

Sarah Ladipo Manyika: In Dependence

“Today, she’d brought him daffodils to brighten the room. ‘Women can bring men flowers too, you know.’ She smiled, sensing…

Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola: Feminist Rogue

‘While there are many feminist strands, which is to say different kinds of feminism, there are also many core principles….

Dr Ainehi Edoro-Glines: Brittle Paper

African literature is changing’ – Brittle Paper Brittle Paper is your go-to site for African writing and literary culture. Brittle…

Nicole Dennis-Benn: Patsy

“Just two years shy of thirty, Patsy has nothing to show for it besides the flimsy brown envelope that she…

Vanessa Govender: Beaten but not Broken

“This is my story. This happened to me. Who he is, is irrelevant. He could be the boy next door,…

Desiree-Anne Martin: We don’t Talk About it Ever

‘But I am done with deceit. Lies no longer hold any allure for me. Now I seek true words that…

Sisonke Msimang: The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

‘With razor-sharp insight, Msimang writes in a reflective tone that contains both heartbreak and humour, as she navigates some often-overlooked…

Landa Mabenge: Becoming Him: a Trans memoir of Triumph

‘But humility is a work of progress and there are times when I need to work on practising tolerance. Whenever…

Rekgotsofetse Chikane: Breaking a Rainbow, Building a Nation

“Whiteness seeks to remove us from its embrace because we threaten it. We place its position at the centre at…

Sihle Bolani: We Are The Ones We Need

“But I’ve had time now to really think about the issue of racism, abuse, and discrimination against black professionals in…

Malebo Sephodi: Miss Behave

‘Well-behaved women seldom make history.’ -@malebosephodi writes deeply on the way this quote by Laurel Thatcher has influenced her life and…

Rosie Motene: Reclaiming The Soil

Happy 2019!!!!!! The first live recording of The Cheeky Natives features Rosie Motene talking about her memoir ‘Reclaiming the Soil:…

Mohale Mashigo: Intruders

“A collection of stories about nobodies who discover that they matter.” This is how Mohale Mashigo described her latest offering,…

Qarnita Loxton: Being Lily

“This time especially, she was absolutely right, down to the last word. It was still only beginning.” These words end…

Haji Mohamed Dawjee: Sorry Not Sorry

‘No one owns their stories and the telling of them like white male writers. They are given endless opportunities for…

Nthikeng Mohlele: Michael K

“Although this, of course, was not strictly true: I so desired Maureen that at times I temporarily lost my mind,…

Pumza Shabangu: Unspoken Truth

“As I lifted my eyes, they landed on some deep chocolate eyes with long eyelashes right across me. Our eyes…

Nozizwe Jele: The Ones With Purpose

“I imagined a dying person’s last breath as something resembling an exclamation mark, distinct and hanging mid-air like an interrupted…

Born To Kwaito Sihle Mthembu and Esinako Ndabeni

“By unflinchingly depicting people in a township getting on with the everyday business of being themselves without the overarching gaze…

Sue Nyathi: The Gold Diggers

“Every morning Portia paraded down Pritchard Street to the offices where she worked on the corner of Market Street and…

Panashe Chigumadzi: These Bones Will Rise Again

“To imagine these women is to face their questions. They are difficult. They are painful. They are necessary. We cannot…

Siya Khumalo: You Have to be Gay to Know God

‘History dooms us to condemn the guiltless (and ourselves with them) when we don’t choose mercy over sacrifice. Homophobia in…

Clinton Chauke: Born in Chains

“I studied for the whole year without paying the university, so I was in debt. I was hungry for success….

Dr Barbara Boswell: Grace: a novel

“Why don’t we do that now? Paint?” Grace tried.And Mary would exhale the wordless sigh of a woman who had…

Sara -Jayne King: Killing Karoline

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

Zinzi Clemmons: What We Lose

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

Mona Eltahawy: Headscarves and Hymens

“The rage shifts from the oppressors in our presidential palaces to the oppressors on our streets and in our homes…

Dr Danai Mupotsa: Feminist Researcher

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

Lidudumalingani Mqombothi: Let your children name themselves

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

Tapiwa Mugabe: Zimbabwe

“You learnt it was human not womanly to cry.” ― Tapiwa Mugabe Tapiwa Mugabe is the author of a poetry…

Shailja Patel: Migritude

Migritude is a term coined by the ineffable Shailja Patel which denotes the migrant attitude. In her book, Migritude, Shailja…

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality

‘If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.’ – Kimberlé Crenshaw…

Zukiswa Wanner: Hardly Working

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

Ashlee Haze: Land of the Living

‘But look how she dances when she thinks no one is watching.Look at the balm oozing from her bonesshe is…

Ebony Stewart: Home.Girl.Hood

‘This poem is about joy. how long it stayedhow we remember itin usalways’ – Ebony Stewart These words are the last…

Yrsa Daley-Ward: Bone

“because writing is soft and a hard place, all at once.” – Yrsa Daley-Ward Instagram poetry seems to dominate the…

Kleaver Cruz: The Black Joy Project

“Black Joy is one of the entities that has gotten us through the many trials and tribulations of our existence…

Dudu Busani- Dube: The Hlomu Series

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

Darnell L.Moore: No Ashes in the Fire

“To discover and name what shapes us is to engage in the work of history” – Darnell L. Moore. On…

Upile Chisala: Soft Magic and Nectar

‘A dose of nectar’ with Upile Chisala. So begins a conversation that can only be described as a black girl…

Chwayita Ngamlana: If I Stay Here

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

Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele and Letlhogonolo: Catching up

What’s up Cheeky? In the latest episode of the podcast we check in with Dr Slay and black boy magic,…

Sisonke Msimang: Always Another Country

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

Ashley Makue – I know how to fix myself

‘Your uncle is a hatchet/i buried in my crotch on purpose’ – Ashley Makue Ntozake Shenge said ‘ being black,…

Lebo Mashile and Majola: Moya

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

Koleka Putuma: Collective Amnesia

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

WordnSound: Poetry, Literary, Blackness

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

Mohale Mashigo: The Yearning

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

Chinelo Okparanta: Under the Udala Trees

So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa We have read so many books and have had lengthy conversations…

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