Zukiswa Wanner is a South African writer, editor, and publisher born in Zambia, raised in Zimbabwe and currently based in Kenya but who considers the whole African continent her home. Her debut novel, The Madams (2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 K.Sello Duiker Award in 2007. Her third novel Men of the South (2010) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth …
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Video: Watch Artistic Encounters in Joburg
Artistic Encounters, the series I founded in 2017, returned with Mphuthumi Ntabeni and Malcolm Jiyane from Johannesburg, South Africa on June 15, 2021. Watch video of the session below;
July 17: Meet and Greet with Ethnikids
On Saturday, July 17, I will be a guest on Ethnikids at their “Meet The Author & Virtual Book Signing” where I will be reading from my new book The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on The Run. The session runs from 3pmGMT/4pmWAT/5pm CAT/6pmEAT. As it comes a day before Nelson Mandela Day, I kindly ask …
July 4: SA Festival of Children’s Fiction appearance
The SA Festival of Children’s Fiction featuring many writers of books for children runs online from 2-4th July. I will be a guest at the festival on Sunday, July 4. Please click here for details on how to join us.
July 12: Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa
I will be one of the guests at the tri-continental launch of the book, Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, to be hosted by the African Studies Association Women’s Caucus on zoom on Monday July 12, at 4 PM SAST, 10 AM US EST and 10 PM AWST. The launch will feature …
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UCT Great Text/Big Questions
I kicked off this year’s UCT’s Great Texts/Big Questions today with the topic, Creativity in The Face of Crisis. Check out the lecture I conducted below; Great Text/Big Questions – Lecture 1 with Zukiswa Wanner from Institute for Creative Arts on Vimeo.
June 15: At Mputhumi Ntabeni’s “The Wanderers” launch.
Cape Town’s finest Mphuthumi Ntabeni is a writer, columnist, playwright and short story writer whose debut novel The Broken River Tent was published by Jacana Media in 2019. His newest book The Wanderers published by Kwela will be presented on June 15 with the pianist Malcolm Jiyane and a reading by Zukiswa Wanner (that’s me) …
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June 16: The Black Pimpernel launches at Exclusive Books Rosebank
The Black Pimpernel will launch at the Exclusive Books Rosebank on June 16 at 4pm. My discussant will be Sello Hatang. It’s happening way before curfew so RSVP timeously as we will be observing Covid protocol. Friends from Joburg View (Tshwane), you are also welcome. All details are on the poster.
Read my essay in “Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa.”
Please Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa which contains my essay “Do I Make You Uncomfortable?” about writing in a white publishing industry. Surfacing traces a path within black South African feminist thought in 20 dazzling chapters. The collection shows how radical black South African women have been part of several traditions …
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June 12: Virtually Yours with Ondjaki
I continue “Virtually Yours” my partnership with Goethe Namibia, a series of online discussions with contemporary authors from Africa. “Virtually Yours” aims to create an online platform for avid readers, writers, academics, publishers, agents, and anyone else interested in literature by writers from Africa. The series of online discussions held once a month from October …
May 12: UCT’s Great Texts/Big Questions
I kick off this year’s UCT’s Great Texts/Big Questions today with the topic, Creativity in The Face of Crisis. Others to look forward to in the series are Yewande Omotoso , Athambile Masola , Lebo Mashile , Percy Mabandu and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Join me if you can at 11am Ghana Time/ 12pm Cameroon Time/13hrs …