This book discovers everyday forms of conviviality in fiction and life writing from Eastern and
Southern Africa. It focuses on ordinary moments of recognition, of hospitality, of humour and …

Beyond Gold and Diamonds demonstrates the importance of southern Africa to British
literature from the 1880s to the 1920s, from the rise of the systematic exploitation of the …

Sol T. Plaatje's novel, Mhudi, has been lauded by many critics as a “feminist” text. However,
a recent article by Shannon Young and Tom Henthorne reads Mhudi as less of a proto …

Animal protagonists in present day African fiction inhabit complex, often contradictory
positions between preconceived notions of indigenous tradition, racialised colonial legacies …

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the factors that enable the
resilience of young adults who experienced drought in Leandra. Against the background of …

Sol Plaatje's novel Mhudi (1930) is interpreted as evoking the precolonial era in South Africa
from a perspective prior to apartheid, thus providing a critical assessment of race relations …