Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

Tag: Mmatshilo Motsei

  • Third African Women Writers Symposium for Johannesburg

    Third African Women Writers Symposium for Johannesburg

    It seems like it’s all going down in the African literature calendar in September. Apart from the Open Books and the Storymojas, there are many other events that don’t have the same amount of interest but have personalities that we can’t ignore. Take for instance the 3rd African Women Writers which is set to happen…

  • South African writers support their strays with new anthology

    South African writers support their strays with new anthology

    In 1985, American artists led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie came up with a song called We Are The World to help the people of Ethiopia who were going through a horrible drought. It is still one of the best examples of artists coming together to alleviate suffering. South African writers, many of them…