The Wanderers
Phakamile Maseti, growing in the small Eastern Cape town of Queenstown decides to join the anti-apartheid struggle in the late seventies and went into exile in the early eighties, leaving behind a woman
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
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.
Why We Read
Listen to The Book Lounge podcast, A Reader's Community, interview Mphuthumi Ntabeni on his new novel The Wanderers. Why We Read with Mphuthumi NtabeniMphuthumi Ntabeni
LOSS: Land, Generational Wealth, Identity and Homelessness
Tunein to the discussion between Tembeka Ngcukaitobi and Mphuthumi Ntabeni to see how their respective books merge in tackling the topic of national and personalised loss. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jmoFHjkNzoZVp7YlayOYozMbj-NH9Idr/
A SOLEMN DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR amaMFENGU, THE WANDERERS
The 14th May is a solemn day of remembrance for my people, amaMfengu, when our tribes were scattered from the banks of Thukela (Tugela) River on the foothills of Ukhahlamba (Drakensberg) Mountains to
Echoes of Eternity
Whenever I arrive on a new place I look forward to discovering it with my feet. This is why I was rather disappointed when it rained the whole week of our arrival for
My African Top Reads of 2020
By African Reads I mean books written by people who were born or live in Africa. 10. Tata Sikuxolele by Thembisile Kundlwana won the Sanlam Literary Prize 2019 for Youth Literature. The is