Zukiswa Wanner has contributed to a number of publications both across the African continent and abroad. Her work has featured in The Observer/The Guardian, Sunday Independent, City Press, Mail & Guardian, La Republica, Open Society, The Sunday Times, African Review, New Statesman, True Love, Marie Claire, Real, Juice, OpenSpace, Wordsetc, Baobab, Shape, Oprah, Elle, Juice, Guernica, Afropolitan and Forbes Africa.
Here are some of the many articles that she has written.
The Guardian
- Zukiswa Wanner’s top five African writers
- Why should Nelson Mandela be played by a South African actor?
- Annelie Botes’s ugly racism.
Johannesburg Review of Books
• Kinshasa, a Love Story-Zukiswa Wanner encounters beauty and brutality on her visit to the Congolese capital for the Fête du livre de Kinshasa
New African Magazine
Mail & Guardian
- Caught in a diplomatic crossfire
- Mugabe is a zero, not a hero
- Accra: An Outsider’s Brief Perspective
- Write the future with young adults
- A literary snapshot of Somaliland
- Libraries must get into our good books
- Discard the odd and publish in Africa
- Still fighting “black privilege” in fair Cape
- A life spent rewriting Africa
- New Daughters of Africa boosts black women studies
- Illiteracy is part of a ticking time bomb
- No flavour in this book judge
- Vote for parties that live up to promises
- Arts department messes up again
- Project spawns stories for young adults
- In Tito’s Rwanda: Beneath the surface
- SA needs to play catchup with India
- The silence of their friends
- Let’s mute the R. Kellys in our lives
- Five good reads to enjoy
- The danger of abuser confessions
- Winnie ‘unashamedly’ resurrected
- Love will win when I can’t protect him
- Stories in mother tongues matter
- Our approach to drugs must change
- Why jobs should never trump human dignity
- A gender violence robot, seriously?
- We claim Mbappé but is he one of us?
- There’s no sweetness in Kenya’s sugar
- Best not to rely on fickle donors
- Heartbreak in Huhudi
- I voted yes for land expropriation
- Time to speak out about abusers
- SA passport, British visa application
- No love lost: What Winnie hate says about us
- Fund the labour of cultural workers, Mr President
- Women want action, not words
- Black Panther is more than just representation
- A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers
- It takes a village to end illiteracy
- We’re complicit in our own exploitation
- Snapshots of a living poem
- Some are more valid than others
- When I cry, you cry. We cry together
- Writing’s on the wall for parochial SA publishers
- Rethink Mandela book recall
- Three August votes highlight three very different democracies
- Family conversations to divide and conquer
Daily Nation
- Musings of a wanderer: Holiday in Durban? No, consider Dar
- May Joy Wangari be the last child to die over English
- Dead people don’t read obituaries
- Arts corrupted, or something like it, and how to avoid it
- How the city of Jo’burg mirrors African literature
- Rewriting history: Sometimes fiction tells the real story
- Free at last in the Soweto that gave me spirit to write
- Independent stores are the best places to shop for books
- Haughty Americans and the joke that was the Essence Festival
- With these prizes, the future of writing in Africa is in safe hands
- All writers should be edited, including literary celebrities
- A tale of two dogs: When privilege and survival skills
- New writers should never to walk in anyone’s shadow
- A border village with friendly officials who love books
- Judge me by what I write, not by my gender
- How a trip to the Red Carpet made me buy a travel card
- Revelations in a literary city far from my home
- What’s in a name? Shakespeare wasn’t African, Aidoo is
- The joy of travelling and familiarity of some foreign lands
- Writivism Literary Festival turns four despite early doubts
- Lessons in manners
- The lighter side of ageing according to Jo’burg taxi drivers
- The luxury bus ride that took us home away from home
- How to survive the Zimbabwe cash crisis as a foreigner
- Long journey to Lusaka almost ends in a fire disaster
- African passport joke and the agony of getting a SA visa
The Elephant