“Mandela was not the only head of state taken in by Koagne. Le king kept snapshots of himself with many a man of power, among them Mobutu Sese Seko and Denis Sassou Nguesso […] He took Mobutu for 15 million dollars. Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso lost 40 million to him. Sassou, Etienne Eyadéma of Togo, several high officials of Gabon, Tanzania and Kenya, a member of the Spanish government and an ex-operative of the Israeli Mossad were bamboozled as well.” – Dominique Malaquais (Blood Money: A Douala Chronicle).
Bantu Serenade by Ntone Edjabe (featuring Nah-ee-lah) (read excerpt)
Santu Mofokeng: Trajectory of a street photographer (part1) (read excerpt)
Binyavanga Wainaina: Hell In Bed With Mrs Peprah (read excerpt)
Dominique Malaquais: Lindela (the winnie suite) (read excerpt)
Boubacar Boris Diop: Myriem (read excerpt)
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Reading the Palms of the Time - Various (Diartskonageng, 2016)
Reading the Palms of the Time is an anthology of contemporary South African plays and is the first publication by Diartskonageng.
It features work by renowned South African playwrights Xoli Norman, Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, Aubrey Sekhabi, Kgafela oa Mogogodi and Monageng “Vice” Motshabi.
The featured work, Hallelujah!, Inter-racial and Book of Rebellations, includes collaborative work between some of these writers and explores questions of race and political power in post 1994 South Africa.