Books by Zakes Mda
The Heart of Redness
by Zakes Mda
The Heart of Redness is set in the early post-apartheid period and it’s about a black man who is in exile and he comes home and finds that he isn’t sufficiently connected to the new elite to do well
Interviews where books by Zakes Mda were recommended
The best books on Identity in South Africa, recommended by Jonny Steinberg
The journalist and author discusses five books with strikingly different interpretations of what it means to be South African today, whether black or white
