Books by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Mphuthumi Ntabeni is a South African novelist and book critic, author of The Broken River Tent (2018) and The Wanderers (2021).
“Phila, one of the two central characters of Mputhumi Ntabeni’s exceptional novel The Broken River Tent, is a 40-year-old, disaffected South African…Early in the story Phila is travelling on a bus in Port Elizabeth when there appears on the seat beside him the second central character in the story…This is Maqoma (1798-1873) the most eminent of the 19th century Xhosa leaders.”
Interviews with Mphuthumi Ntabeni
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Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih -
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The Land Is Ours: Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa
by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi -
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Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa
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4
A Library to Flee
by Etienne van Heerden -
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A General Theory of Oblivion
by Daniel Hahn (translator) & José Eduardo Agualusa
The Best African Contemporary Writing, recommended by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
The Best African Contemporary Writing, recommended by Mphuthumi Ntabeni
The emphasis in new African writing is away from politics towards how the individual responds to events, says South African novelist Mphuthumi Ntabeni, author of The Broken River Tent and The Wanderers. He picks out five outstanding books of African writing, including novels that paved the way for new genres, a book of short stories from across Africa, and a work of nonfiction that he recommends to “anybody who wants to know what is happening in South Africa.”
The Wanderers, reviewed in the Johannesburg Review of Books, October 2021