Justify the Enemy
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Justify the Enemy

Becoming Human in South Africa

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eBook - PDF

Justify the Enemy

Becoming Human in South Africa

About this book

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).

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction Zakes Mda and the Place of Writing
  3. A Writing Life
  4. Lessons from the Writing Life
  5. Babel’s Happiness
  6. Justify the Enemy
  7. The Pink Mountain
  8. On Writing Historical Fiction vs Fictionalised History
  9. Write What You Don’t Know
  10. Filling the Void
  11. A Writer and Human Rights
  12. Interview: Zakes Mda in Conversation with Michèle Betty
  13. Fiction and Politics
  14. Free Eskinder Nega
  15. Rwanda Gacaca
  16. Creativity in the New South Africa
  17. Excellence Would be Meaningless without Mediocrity
  18. Creativity after Apartheid
  19. Biko’s Children
  20. The Fiction of Reconciliation
  21. A Storage Place of Memory
  22. Parody, Satire and the Carnivalesque in Interactive African Theatre
  23. Some Observations on Culture and the African Malaise
  24. The State of the Nation
  25. Ten Years of Democracy
  26. What it Means to be an African
  27. A Letter to Mandela
  28. The Contradictions of Mandela
  29. After Mandela
  30. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
  31. The Myth of Colour Blindness in South Africa
  32. Our Twin Pathologies
  33. Do We Need Patriotic Journalism?
  34. Earth Matters
  35. A Perspective on Global Warming
  36. A Further Perspective on Global Warming
  37. Notes