African Writing Online; Home Page; Holiday Issue

Alex Smith
Amanze Akpuda
Amatoritsero
Amitabh Mitra
Ando Yeva
Andrew Martin
Aryan Kaganof
Ben Williams
Bongani Madongo
Chielozona Eze
Chris Mann
Chukwu Eke
Chuma Nwokolo
Colleen Higgs
Colleen C. Cousins
Don Mattera
Elizabeth Pienaar
Elleke Boehmer
Emilia Ilieva
Fred Khumalo
Janice Golding
Lebogang Mashile
Manu Herbstein
Mark Espin
Molara Wood
Napo Masheane
Nduka Otiono
Nnorom Azuonye
Ola Awonubi
Petina Gappah
Sam Duerden
Sky Omoniyi
Toni Kan
Uzor M. Uzoatu
Valerie Tagwira
Vamba Sherif
Wumi Raji
Zukiswa Wanner

Credits:
   Ntone Edjabe
   Rudolf Okonkwo
   Tolu Ogunlesi
   Yomi Ola
   Molara Wood

Welcome
to

's Holiday Issue. In this edition we focus on South Africa, a country with her fair share of stories to tell. The Rainbow nation has the storytellers for the job, if this issue is any indication. We present .... South African writers - in addition to our usual fare from Africa and her diaspora.

Confidence Within
Alex Smith introduces South Africa's female writers in a Special Essay and Dialogue for


	Tributes

Ngugi at 70 As wa T'hiongo turns 70, Emilia Ilieva writes a tribute to an African pioneer
Idzia Ahmad Uzo Maxim Uzoato, on the fleeting life of a poet of promise

Cyprian Ekwensi; A Writer's Life Venerable author of Jagua Nana, Burning Grass, and A Passport for Malam Ilia passed on, aged 86 years. Amanze Akpuda reviews his life and work

A Nobel for Ngugi Is this the year of the East African prize?

A Poetic Vision The first of a three-piece Don Mattera tribute

Our Seas will meet their Land...
Ando Yeva remembers the drowned victims of the Zong Massacre

Photo Gallery
a new gallery, with images of the Boston Okigbo Conference and other recent events

What the Writers are Reading
Nineteen African writers share their two favourite books of the year. Great holiday reads, compiled and presented by Molara Wood.

' Is J.M. Coetzee Dead?'
Sam Duerden asks, in a review of the Nobel laureate's new book, Diary of a Bad Year


	The Holiday / South African Edition

Reflections in a Shattered Glass
Investigative Report by Manu Herbstein. A close reading of the British Council's Ghanaian Celebrations of the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

Samburu
Verses from featured South African poet, Napo Masheane

Monkey Stew on the 8th Day in Berberati
Janice Golding's trip takes an unexpected turn in this psychological travel adventure.

Meeting Lucy
Short story from South African, Elizabeth Pienaar, author of Ahkenaten's Garden .

NELM
Literature as antiquity: Andrew Martin on the National English Literary Museum in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Vertigo
A Colleen Crawford Cousins allegory of life and heights

Eddie Fisher Won’t Be Comin’ In Today
New short story from Botswanian writer, Lauri Kubuitsile

Mainini Grace's Promises
Zimbabwean novelist, Valerie Tagwira, in her debut short fiction




	South African Writing - Past and Present, Editorial Essay, coming soon


Notes from a (New) Country From Forest Town to Robben Island... Centurion, Jeppe.. South African vignettes from Colleen Higgs

On Writing
Hard-won lessons from South Africa's Fred Khumalo

Tales by Conversation.
Another bar, another conversation; Bar Room Blues with Chuma Nwokolo

An African Travel Book
Petina Gappah reviews Sihle Khumalo's Dark Continent my Black Arse for

Online Guest: Elleke Boehmer
South African born professor of Literature at Oxford University

Mandela's Cell.
Three poems from writer and fourth-generation South African, Chris Mann

Mission to Labaran A Youth Service adventure from Wumi Raji, author of Rolling Dreams.

Oxford University Poetry Society Three poems from an OUPS students' workshop in Lincoln College

Journey Short story offering from Chielozona Eze

			Faces In his latest fiction, Liberian writer, Vamba Sherif explores the farther limits of motherhood



Postcards from London Poetic vignettes from an exile, by Nnorom Azuonye

The Car
Dark tale from Nigerian writer, Toni Kan

Publications Received
The Rich Man of Pietermaritzburg, Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent, Halala Madiba: Nelson Mandela in Poetry... and others

		Dear Phil, By the time you read this letter, I'll be dead... Zukiswa		...we are sandwiched by pyramids. There’s one to the right of our bar and a bunch of them across the Nile... A Short Biography of Yesterday