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• “Through the crooked jogs of history”: A Review of Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda

  By Thando Njovane on 24 July , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Thando Njovane The year is 1963. The newly independent British colony of Kenia is renamed Kenya. Inside what used to be colonial officer Ian Edward McDonald’s “Monument of Love”, the Jakaranda Hotel, a young man, Rajan, is kissed… Read More ›

• Review: Ivan Vladislavić’s 101 Detectives

  By Thando Njovane on 3 March , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Thando Njovane. As demonstrated by his substantial and sophisticated body of work, South Africa’s Ivan Vladislavić is certainly one of the most remarkable and versatile writers of our time. Vladislavić’s latest gift to letters is the insightful, elaborate,… Read More ›