The real heroes of the struggle remain silent, while others craft fiction for fame. Let’s honour truth, not myth, to preserve ...

On May 28, 2025, an African literary iroko fell. Ngugi wa Thiong’o departed the earth at 87 years old and joined the realm of ...

Reflecting on the life and legacy of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Dr Iqbal Survé explores the profound lessons he imparted about ...

I was in my early teens when I came across the slim novel, Weep Not, Child, by the then James Ngugi. Actually, the novel laid ...

Gertrude Shope, a revered leader in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, has passed away at 99, leaving a legacy of ...

On the border with Portuguese-ruled Angola, she also helped establish a village of Angolan refugees, an early rear base for the rebel Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ... Mercenaries from ...

A new book, Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid, has just been published in South Africa. Intended for ... Apartheid spurred protests and a liberation movement made of various ...

“Celebrating it’s 7th year, the event invites the public to commemorate South Africa’s Human Rights Day and celebrate the memory of those liberation heroes who ... showcasing local and global talent; ...

Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order to freeze all U.S. aid to South Africa and to grant ... as the preoccupation of national liberation movements, was a threat.

Olive Olusejun won the 2024 Poetry Africa Slam Jam ... “The Nobel laureate and first President of South Africa’s constitutional democracy, Nelson Mandela, started his primary schooling ...

Despite holding on to the presidency, SWAPO, the former liberation movement which has ruled Namibia since it achieved independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990, is clearly losing its ...

The couple settled in Paris, where Mr. Breytenbach wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English, including a four-volume memoir of his experiences in South Africa. His best-known work ...