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Our Ghosts Were Once People

Stories on Death and Dying

By: Bongani Kona

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Our Ghosts Were Once People

Stories on Death and Dying

By: Bongani Kona

I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: "Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died."' – Dela Gwala Death is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer refl ections on death and dying, from individual losses to large scale catastrophes. Karin Schimke revisits her troubled relationship with her late father, a Second World War survivor 'whose brain had been broken by violence'. Madeleine Fullard, the head of South Africa's Missing Persons Task Team, draws us into the search for activists who were 'disappeared' or went missing in political circumstances between 1960 and 1994. Caine Prize winner Lidudumalingani remembers his childhood in a small village in the Eastern Cape, and how his mother always listened to death notices read over the radio as a way of bearing witness to the grief of strangers. The other contributors in this poignant and thought-provoking anthology turn their minds to subjects as varied as the ritual of washing the body of the deceased before burial, the ethics of killing small animals, and the extinction of humankind. In a time of relentless grief, Our Ghosts Were Once People reminds us that one of the small consolations of literature is that all sorrows can be borne. Sindiswa Busuku • Lucienne Bestall • Khadija Patel • Shrikant Peters • Sudirman Adi Makmur • Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe • Rofhiwa Maneta • Madeleine Fullard • Musawenkosi Khanyile • Simone Haysom • Thato Monare • Angifi Dladla • Nick Mulgrew • Tariq Hoosen • Catherine Boulle • Tatamkhulu Afrika • Dela Gwala •Anna Hartford • Gabeba Baderoon • Barry Christianson • Vonani Bila • Khanya Mtshali • Robert Berold

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266

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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177619067X

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9781776190676

Being and Belonging

Safe House Short Story Singles Bundle

By: Elnathan John,Bongani Kona,Msingi Sasis,Sarita Ranchod,Barbara Wanjala

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Being and Belonging

Safe House Short Story Singles Bundle

By: Elnathan John,Bongani Kona,Msingi Sasis,Sarita Ranchod,Barbara Wanjala

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa. This collection of five singles from the Safe House anthology gathers work from the very best of contemporary African writers. Includes: Includes: The Keepers of Secrets by Elnathan John A Murder in Clovelly by Bongani Kona Dream Chasers by Msingi Sasis Border Crossings by Sarita Ranchod A Woman's Smile by Barbara Wanjala

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117

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Dundurn

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1459738047

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9781459738041

A Murder in Clovelly

Safe House Short Story Singles

By: Bongani Kona

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A Murder in Clovelly

Safe House Short Story Singles

By: Bongani Kona

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa. This creative nonfiction single from Safe House anthology is Bongani Kona’s account of a South African murder.

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1459737954

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The Man Who Founded the ANC

A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

By: Bongani Ngqulunga

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The Man Who Founded the ANC

A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

By: Bongani Ngqulunga

In 1912, just over a year after returning from his studies at Columbia and Oxford, the thirty-year-old Pixley ka Isaka Seme succeeded where others had failed in forming a political organisation that represented all black South Africans. Seme also established a national newspaper, became one of the pioneering black lawyers in South Africa, bought land from white farmers for black settlement at the time when opposition to it was gaining momentum, became an adviser and confidant to African royalty, and was considered a leading visionary for black economic empowerment. And yet, when he became president general of the ANC in the 1930s, he brought it to its knees through sheer ineptitude and an authoritarian style of leadership. On more than one occasion he was found guilty for breaching the law, which partly led to him being struck off the roll of attorneys. This book discusses in detail Seme’s extraordinary life, tracing it back to his humble beginnings at Inanda Mission to his triumphs and disappointments across the continents, in his public and private life. When Seme died in 1951 he was bankrupt and his political standing had suffered greatly. And yet he was praised as one of the greatest South Africans ever to have lived. For all this, he has largely been forgotten. This biography brings the remarkable life of this extraordinary South Africa back to public consciousness.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1770229272

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9781770229273

A Murder in Clovelly

Safe House Short Story Singles

By: Bongani Kona

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A Murder in Clovelly

Safe House Short Story Singles

By: Bongani Kona

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa's contemporary literary greats. In a collection that ranges from travel writing and memoir to reportage and meditative essays, editor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey has brought together some of the most talented writers of creative nonfiction from across Africa. This creative nonfiction single from Safe House anthology is Bongani Kona’s account of a South African murder.

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Being and Belonging

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By: Elnathan John,Bongani Kona,Msingi Sasis,Sarita Ranchod,Barbara Wanjala

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Book's by Bongani Kona

Our Ghosts Were Once People

Our Ghosts Were Once People

Being and Belonging

Being and Belonging

A Murder in Clovelly

A Murder in Clovelly

The Man Who Founded the ANC

The Man Who Founded the ANC

A Murder in Clovelly

A Murder in Clovelly

Being and Belonging

Being and Belonging

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