Publishing diverse voices could prove to be a source of domestic and global success for local publishers

An activist’s encounter with an attractive waitress leads her to take an inventory of her own body in Mercy Thokozane Minah’s ‘The Sweetest Ache’

"I knew from the time I was a kid that I wanted to write books, but then life happened and I ended up in finance."

This is an extract from the chapter titled Aisha, in which the author travels from Bamako in Mali to Conakry in Guinea

This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life