Archive for the ‘ Books ’ Category
Life in the Inner-city - Lauren Beukes (South Africa) - Aziz Hassim (South Africa) - Facilitator: Achille Mbembe Discussion on life in the inner city gives to rise many questions of culture and diversity regarding the evolution of the inner city. When considering urban fiction one asks “Is urban fiction showing a re-emergence of culture?” [ READ MORE ]
The 14th annual Time of the Writer festival held in Durban from 14-20 march 2011 was a wonderful meeting of talent, sharing of literary inspiration and peeks into the many avenues of the literary scene from an African perspective. Featuring writers : Ellen Banda-Aaku (Zambia) Aziz Hassim (South Africa) Raj Patel (UK) Biyi Bandele [ READ MORE ]
Media is ever evolving bringing with it a new set of industry jargon, with the likes of blogs, blooks, podcasting and a host of others. Memoirs for Kimya is a blook – Yes that’s an actual word Blog (weblog) that has been turned into a book. Hence it is a blook. Bo-kaap Kombuis – featured [ READ MORE ]
Cape Town Book Fair 13 – 16 June 2009 Cape Town’s annual book fair is a haven for book lovers, publishers, education focussed folks, and children. Be sure you don’t miss out on this yearly slice of words and inspiration. It’s the largest literary event in Sub-Sahara Africa attended by 50,000 people, 250+ exhibitors, 30 [ READ MORE ]
The black man must enter the white man’s house through the back door. The black man does most of the dirty work. When a white man who hasn’t gone far in school is given such work he says I’m not a kaffir! Black man cleans the streets but mustn’t walk freely on the pavement; Blackman [ READ MORE ]
A post for all the bookworms reading my blog Source: Exclusive Books 101 Books To Read Before You Die list at the 2007 Cape Town Book Fair The books that made the list are the books you’ve read, and re-read, books which define eras, created friends instead of characters, entertained generations and have become legends [ READ MORE ]
Book: The Rainbow has no pink Author: Hamish Hoosen Pillay, winner of the Citizen Book prize. See Also: Link The personalized note from Hamish on my autographed copy of the novel was merely a taste of more brilliant words to follow. The synopses of the novel piques at the reader’s attention, unravelling heinous crimes of [ READ MORE ]
A wicked weekend away with the girls, crawling home with the remaining bits of sanity barely intact. Sore bodies from ice skating, sore eyes from not sleeping… no more caffeine! I needed sleep. There’s something about being incredibly tired, and not being able to Sleep that irritates the life outa me and I’m an insomniac [ READ MORE ]
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