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• Southern Africa: Book Review | Black and Feminist in SA
  [New Frame] Poetry and art combine in a collection of 20 essays edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon to shine a light on the ideas and work of women in southern Africa.
  
  
• South Africa: Sharp Read | SA's Revolutionary People's Culture
  [New Frame] In tracing the legacies of South Africa's struggle artists, Lebogang Lance Nawa's weighty anthology offers a glimpse into the lived experience of cultural creators.
  
  
• South Africa: New Books | Insurgency in the Global South
  [New Frame] Black women workers at a Simba Chips factory in Johannesburg fought for better conditions, contracts and wages. Their efforts are emblematic of the ongoing struggle against inequality.
  
  
• South Africa: Children's Book Aims to Give Learners Hope During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  [GroundUp] More than 25,000 learners on the Cape Flats participate in the launch of Yola and the Trusted Crown for International Literacy Day
  
  
• Africa: Charting the Wonderful Touchstones On Tragedy That Go Beyond a Western View
  [The Conversation Africa] Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature is the latest book from Ghanaian literary critic Ato Quayson. In this Q&A with The Conversation Africa Ghana editor Godfred Akoto Boafo, he shares insights into the book.
  
  
• South Africa: South Africa's Cop-Organised Crime Web
  [New Frame] Investigative journalist Caryn Dolley talks about her new book To The Wolves which exposes how organised crime is sustained and enabled through police, politicians and gangsters.
  
  
• South Africa: Sharp Read | Losing Ground in the Promised Land
  [New Frame] Damon Galgut's use of irony in his Booker Prize-nominated new novel, The Promise, toes the line between the ironic and the allegorical in masterful fashion.
  
  
• Africa: New Books - A Historian's Passage to Africa
  [New Frame] Bill Freund's autobiography follows his journey to universities in Chicago, England, Nigeria and finally Durban, where he became a leading analyst of African history.
  
  
• Namibia: Living a Legacy
  [Namibian] NATASHA UYS