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His books bring north Africa into conversation with sub-Saharan Africa about lived queer experiences.

Variety as a Community Reality The "Celebrate Africa" book fair in Cape Town was the biggest of its kind ever to be held on African soil. Renowned Muslim writers like Imraan Coovadia und Rayda Jacobs were also invited to attend. Almuth Schellpeper reports Sophisticated literature off the beaten paths of the mainstream – Rayda Jacobs, left, and Imraan Coovadia ​​One woman describes her addiction to gambling, her relationship to her homosexual son who is suffering from AIDS, and her affair with her sister's husband. What is so astonishing about her story is not her shameless vanity or her...

Black and Present: A review of Barbara Boswell’s And Wrote My Story Anyway By Opinion Mandisa Haarhoff In her first academic book, And Wrote My Story Anyway, published 2020 by Wits Press, Barbara Boswell animates significant contributions to feminist thought made by Black South African women writers. These writers have often been undermined by critics such as Lewis Nkosi as mere stenographers concerned with motherhood, naïve reportage on apartheid horrors, and autobiography. Boswell challenges this reduction of Black women’s intellectual labour and articulates the literary topog...