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.

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) …

Read more →“June 15: At Mputhumi Ntabeni’s “The Wanderers” launch.”

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.

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 …

Read more →“June 12: Virtually Yours with Ondjaki”

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 …

Read more →“May 12: UCT’s Great Texts/Big Questions”

I continue my partnership with Goethe Namibia called Virtually Yours which is a series of online discussions – Virtual Gatherings – 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 …

Read more →“May 8: Virtually Yours with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor”

I continue my partnership with Goethe Namibia called Virtually Yours which is a series of online discussions – Virtual Gatherings – 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 …

Read more →“April 10: Virtually Yours with Abubakar Adam Ibrahim”

I continue my partnership with Goethe Namibia called Virtually Yours which is a series of online discussions – Virtual Gatherings – 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 …

Read more →“March 13: Virtually Yours with Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda”

On Friday 18 December 2020,  internationally acclaimed South African writers Angela Makholwa and Zukiswa Wanner will talk with book lovers from eSwatini about their new works at the Wine Boutique in Ezulwini from 5.30pm until 7.30pm. Angela Makholwa will read from her latest and fifth novel, Critical But Stable, a fascinating story of the long …

Read more →“December 18: With Angela Makholwa in Eswatini”

Now in its 8th year, Ake Arts & Book Festival has brought over 700 artists, writers, poets, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, actors, filmmakers and thinkers together to dialogue and celebrate creativity on the African continent through panel discussions, art exhibitions, workshops, storytelling, book chats, poetry performances, a concert, stage play and unforgettable films. I will be …

Read more →“October 22-25: Ake Festival 2020”