Poet Profile: Vuyelwa Maluleke

Vuyelwa Maluleke, is a Joburg based Spoken Word Artist, Scriptwriter and Actor, with a BA in Dramatic Arts from the University of Witwatersrand. She was shortlisted for the Brunel University African Poetry in 2014 , and is the author of...

Poet Profile: Kwame Aidoo (Ghana)

Kwame ‘Write’ Aidoo (Ghana, 1986) is a writer, artist and cultural manager with a background of biochemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana. He has pursued International Culture Management at Leuphana University, Germany and a year’s course...

Mending by Ingrid de Kok

In and out, behind ,across The Formal gesture binds the cloth the stitchery's a surgeon's rhyme a Chinese stamp, a pantomime   of print. Then Spoor. The trail of red Scabs rise, stigmata from the thread a cotton chronicle congealed...

Q&A: Keitumetse ‘Abi’ Tlhako

  Keitumetse 'Abi' Tlhako is a young poet born and raised in Rustenburg, in the North West province of South Africa. Currently studying Diagnostic Radiography at The university of Johannesburg, Abi is also steadily carving out a name for herself...

Essay: Still in the Making by Maakomele R. Manaka

How do I find my voice? Who do I ask? A spaza-shop lady owner at the middle of the end of her road? “Dumela mama, do you know how I can find my voice?” Or do I ask the spotie...