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Last Word: What does “hospitality” really mean?
(Duke University Press, 2018)
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Last year I filled out an endless number of
forms on the internet and had my photo taken
this way for an American visa, that way for a
Schengen one, another way for Britain. I stood
in queues to gather freshly ...
To Write Liberty
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The keynote for the International Conference, Writing for Liberty, held in Cape Town in 2017
is a response to the contradictory demands made on writers: to respond to the suffering in the
world and to refrain from ...
'This thing called reconciliation…' Forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous
world view, played a role in the process. This paper tries to show that ...
“The Gwarrie Call that they Recognise”: An analysis of the translated Sesotho poem “Ntwa ea Jeremane 1914” (War against Germany 1914) by BM Khaketla (1913–2001)
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)
This essay looks at a recently translated poem, “Ntwa ea Jeremane 1914”, written by BM Khaketla, as a lens through which to approach the feelings and attitudes of people from Lesotho towards the world wars. A poem is ...
‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ...
Some new perspectives on the Soweto uprising: H. M. L. Lentsoane’s poem “Black Wednesday” (“Laboraro le lesoleso”)
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2022)
The epic poem about the Soweto uprising, “Laboraro le lesoleso”, written in Sepedi
(Northern Sotho) by H. M. L. Lentsoane has only recently been translated into English by
Biki Lepota as “Black Wednesday” and published ...