This book is a collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda. It showcases his role as a public intellectual with the inclusion of public lectures, essays and media articles. Mda focuses on South Africa's history and the present, identity and belonging, the art of writing, human rights, global warming and why he is unable to keep silent on abuses of power. Some of his best-known novels include Ways of Dying (1995, MNet Book Prize); The Heart of Redness (2000, Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Africa, and Sunday Times Fiction Prize); The Madonna of Excelsior (2002, one of the Top Ten South African books published in the Decade of Democracy); The Whale Caller (2005); Cion (2007); Black Diamond (2009); The Sculptors of Mapungubwe (2013); Rachel's Blue (2014); and Little Suns (2015, Sunday Times Literary Award).
- 285 pages
- English
- PDF
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction Zakes Mda and the Place of Writing
- A Writing Life
- Lessons from the Writing Life
- Babel’s Happiness
- Justify the Enemy
- The Pink Mountain
- On Writing Historical Fiction vs Fictionalised History
- Write What You Don’t Know
- Filling the Void
- A Writer and Human Rights
- Interview: Zakes Mda in Conversation with Michèle Betty
- Fiction and Politics
- Free Eskinder Nega
- Rwanda Gacaca
- Creativity in the New South Africa
- Excellence Would be Meaningless without Mediocrity
- Creativity after Apartheid
- Biko’s Children
- The Fiction of Reconciliation
- A Storage Place of Memory
- Parody, Satire and the Carnivalesque in Interactive African Theatre
- Some Observations on Culture and the African Malaise
- The State of the Nation
- Ten Years of Democracy
- What it Means to be an African
- A Letter to Mandela
- The Contradictions of Mandela
- After Mandela
- Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
- The Myth of Colour Blindness in South Africa
- Our Twin Pathologies
- Do We Need Patriotic Journalism?
- Earth Matters
- A Perspective on Global Warming
- A Further Perspective on Global Warming
- Notes
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