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“... Three African writers, from very different parts of the continent – Saro-Wiwa from Nigeria, Ndebele from South Africa, Macgoye from Kenya. My ignorance of all three regions being deep and extensive, I am obliged to accept these three books in great part as documentary reports, as information about unknown ways of life ...”

“... more than once or twice. In a revised edition of his 2003 novella The Cry of Winnie Mandela, Njabulo Ndebele observes that at a certain point the logic of oppression becomes indistinguishable from the logic of resistance, and that ‘resistance also displays a capacity for its own evil.’ If that remains unacknowledged, particularly by the younger ...”

“... issue ran work by the Kenyan writer Muthoni Garland, the Tanzanian cartoonist Gado and a piece by Njabulo Ndebele on the South African singer Brenda Fassie; ‘Weight of Whispers’, a short story by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, won the next year’s Caine Prize.Wainaina’s Granta essay projected him into the literary firmament as a solo African ...”

“... Winnie Mandela has already been granted re-entry into a communal world, at least symbolically, in Njabulo Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003), in which she narrates her own story after four other women, each of them abandoned by their husband for a different reason, have offered their story to her. One of the men is a disappeared ...”