Tag: Myesha Jenkins
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Myesha Jenkins, Achmat Dangor have passed away.
It was a devastating weekend for African letters as both Myesha Jenkins and Achmat Dangor passed away. It has been a horrible weekend. On Saturday evening, word filtered through that activist and poet Myesha Jenkins had passed away. Jenkins moved to South Africa from Los Angeles in 1993, after many years as an anti-apartheid activist.…
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Makhosazana Xaba’s “Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018″ out now.
Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018, an anthology edited by Makhosazana Xaba and published by UKZN Press was launched in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on July 16, 2019. Makhosazana Xaba is an anthologist, essayist, short-story writer and poet. The South African has three collections of poetry: these hands (2005 and…