CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Arms outstretched and eyes locked on her audience, Koleka Putuma is a big stage presence for a young woman barely 5 feet tall. Her voice is velvet. But her words cut like a ...

In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.

Cynthia Gabbay receives funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013) / European Research Council grant agreement 615564. Karin ...

The struggle of a small Maryland church to protect a historic burial ground recently became the source of inspiration for South African poet Siki Dlanga. Members of the Macedonia Baptist Church in ...

South African poetry, rich with history, has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country’s cultural landscape. But a new free-to-access digital archive is helping change that. Focused on ...

A decade ago, the success of the anti-apartheid movement and the end of the apartheid system brought with it a hunger for all things South African. It was during these high times for South African ...

With work from over 350 poets across 24 countries, the project hopes to elevate the African voice in arts and culture. The first-ever African poetry archive is rewriting history and doing something ...

Poets from around the globe are expected to descend on the Poetry Africa Festival hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts in Durban.

Keith Gottschalk is an ANC member, but writes this review in his personal capacities as a historian and a poet. Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot ...

The Awards have previously recognised luminaries such as poets laureate Mazisi Kunene, Mongane Wally Serote, Keorapetse ...

A South African publishing firm, Dryad Press, has signed a deal with a literary agent, World Arts Agency, to represent its poets. A statement by Dryad Press said World Arts Agency would represent its ...