The Cheeky Natives: Who is your favourite author of all time?
Wisani Mushwana: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Cheeky Natives: What is your favourite book of all time?
Wisani Mushwana: Kintu
The Cheeky Natives : Which book did you most enjoy in 2023?
Wisani Mushwana: Kintu by Jennifer NansubugaMakumbi
The Cheeky Natives : Who should everyone should read?
Wisani Mushwana: K Sello Duiker & Buchi Emecheta
The Cheeky Natives: What is on your TBR for 2024?
Wisani Mushwana:
*The Sex Lives of African Women— Nana DarkoaSekyiamah
*The Fraud – Zadie Smith
*Glass Tower — Sarah Isaacs
*Peach Country — Nondwe Mpuma
*[un]ravelling — Sue Nyamnjoh
*The Shadow King —Maaza Mengiste
*Girl, Woman, Other —Bernadine Evaristo
*Born Freeloaders — Phumlani Pikoli
*Black Racist Bitch — Thandiwe Ntshinga
The Cheeky Natives: You’re having a literary dinner party. Who are your 5 guests and why?
Wisani Mushwana:
*Yaa Gyasi
*Chris Abani
*Hala alyan
*Zadie Smith
*K Sello Duiker
*These are writers whose works I admire, am jealous of and wish I could have written. I would give all of them a draft of my second novel to cread and annotate because these minds combined? A banger novel.
The Cheeky Natives: Does your book have a playlist? What songs are on the playlist?
Wisani Mushwana
*Dreams — Msaki
*Thongo Lami —Mnqobi Yazo
*Izeluleko — Mzux ft Mazet SA
*Ntinga Ntaka — Supta ft Thalitha and Obie
*Isiphelo — Bongeziwe Mabandla
*Nal’Ithemba— Msaki ft Xolani Faku
The Cheeky Natives: What are you currently reading?
Wisani Mushwana: Teju Cole's 'Tremor'
The Cheeky Natives: What music are you jamming to?
Wisani Mushwana: Bongiziwe Mabandla's album amaXeshahas been keeping me afloat of late.
The Cheeky Natives: What is the one line in a book you wish you'd written?
Wisani Mushwana : "I was not sorry when my brother died. Nor am I apologising for my callousness, as you may define it, my lack of feeling." Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
The Cheeky Natives: What was the most difficult event in your book to write and why?
Wisani Mushwana: Nsovo's scene always gives me goosebumps, not in a good way.
The Cheeky Natives: You see a book on someone's shelf and you have an immediate bombastic side-eye. What book is it?
Wisani Mushwana: Rich Dad Poor Dad, South African dads don't even want to be dads in the first place.
The Cheeky Natives: Who would play you in a movie about your life?
Wisani Mushwana: Hungani Ndlovu, mainly because he's a great actor, but also because my partner loves the Ndlovu's Uncut
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