Tag: racism

Unforgotten man of the people

Replete with clear maps and a body of photographs, this biography of Tsietsi Mashinini by Sam Mathe is inequivocally a ten out of ten historical biography that will keep you gripped from page one, but will reverberate with your understanding of the fabric of South African history for ever after.

Paean to an African hairdo

FILM REVIEW: THE BARBERSHOP CHRONICLES. WHERE IS IT that African men get to kick back, let their hair down and loosen their tongues? The communal urinal? The local bar? Under the pen of Inua Ellams, it’s the barbershop; South African writers of the ilk of Tony Miyambo, Sue […]