Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

Since he was very young, Bonolo has lived in the world of his imagination. Every day he sits under his peach tree.

Bonolo and the Peach Tree

Fools & Other Stories

A group of women at a specific period in the history of Southern Africa find their family life under the pressures of capitalist modernity and apartheid. These ordinary, intimate stories are anchored to the more powerful public stories of the Penelope of ancient Greek mythology (who waited 18 years while her husband Odyseeus was away), and Winnie Mandela (who waited for 27 years). The life of Winnie Mandela remains one of the great unfolding dramas of our times; a tale of triumphs and tragedies that is only just beginning to be examined.

A Novel

The Cry of Winnie Mandela

Short stories portray the struggles of people to endure the oppressive conditions of life in the black townships of South Africa

Fools and Other Stories

Thinking of Brenda

Sarah, Rings and I

Fools

Ndebele evokes South African township life with humor and subtlety in this novel.

Described as a prophet of the post-apartheid condition, Njabulo Ndebele is a prize-winning author, poet and critic and one of the leading lights in South Africa's literary world. These essays, beginning in 1984, were written over the storm years of the democratic struggle and are reprinted here with a new introduction by Graham Pechey.

Rediscovery of the Ordinary

South African Literature and Culture

Ivan Vladislavić

Death of a Son

Bonolo and the Peach Tree (School Edition)

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Sindiwe Magona

al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ

Charles Mungoshi

Ousmane Sembène

Tololwa Marti Mollel

Dambudzo Marechera

I. N. C. Aniebo

Henri Lopes

Luís Bernardo Honwana

Olympe Bhêly-Quénum

Ken Lipenga

Bloke Modisane

William Saidi

Nnadozie Inyama

Mohammed Abderrahmane Berrada

Ali Deb

Mohammed Moulessehoul

An anthology of twenty-five short stories by the very best emerging and award-winning contemporary African writers illuminates modern-day concerns and realities of African life and features the writing of Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, and others. Original.

Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience

African Rhapsody

Njabulo S. Ndebele's essays on South African literature and culture initially appeared in various publications in the 1980s. They encompass a period of trauma, defiance, and change â?? the decade of the collapse of apartheid and the challenge of reconstructing a future. In 1991, the essays were collected under the current title of Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture. Here, this collection is reprinted without revision, together with an interview provoked by Albie Sachsâ?? paper Preparing Ourselves for Freedom. That it is possible to republish the essays without revision so many years after their first appearance is a tribute to Ndebele's prescience. The issues that he raises and the questions that he poses remain key to a people who, after apartheid, have started to rediscover the complex ordinariness of living in a civil society.

Essays on South African Literature and Culture

The Prophetess

Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

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