Mphuthumi Ntabeni is trained in built environment, reads literature, history and philosophy. He lives in Cape Town. He has written two historical novels, The Broken River Tent & The Wanderers.
Nqandeka writes with an easy familiarity of the Xhosa cultural background showing how the ordinary language is filled with elocution from ancient wisdom. https://www.litnet.co.za/dont-upset-oomalume-a-guide-to-stepping-up-your-xhosa-by-hombakazi-mercy-nqandeka-a-review/
An intellectually bent woman records her descent into passion through a brief period when she was consumed by an affair with a married man of foreign culture to hers. Through it she discovers
This book respects the complexities of first hand experience of an immigrant without overlooking, or failing to condemn with witty irony, the micro aggressions and extant racism from some of the denizens of
Buchtipps - African Publishers | InterkontinentalLogo InterkontinentalFull particulars: Confessional fiction for a desolate age - LitNetIn this episode of his monthly podcast David Attwell talks to Mphuthumi Ntabeni about his tour de force, The
If like me you've been looking for a book with great attention to a place that'll gives you an insight into a Chinese life 20 Fragments Of A Ravenous Youth by the British
I think I was young and too radically minded when I read Noni Jabavu's Drawn In Colour. Its language put me off. The Ochre People is written in similar language although here she