“This is not a story for the romanticisation of pain and perseverance, although it tells of overcoming many difficulties. It…
Lerato never wanted to join her sister’s stupid social club. All those pretentious people spending hours showing off their wealth….
‘Everybody lives in a cage. Whether they know it or not is the question. I think that knowing that you…
‘My book was inspired by my multicultural background – Zambian, Nigerian, Jamaican and British. I wrote it at a time…
“The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a…
“It was a cool evening in late summer when Wallace, his father dead for several weeks, decided that he would…
“The Fatuous State of Severity – a mouthful for most – was a state of mind I had learned to…
(Part 1) Even as a young child, Angela Makholwa wanted to be a storyteller. Her first story was published at…
Abi Daré grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and has lived in the UK for eighteen years. She studied law at the…
At the Open Book Festival, held in Cape Town in 2019, The Cheeky Natives sat down with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah…