Nangamso Mkutaji, 5 Favourites

in March 2026

This week’s reviewer is Nangamso Mkutaji Gumbe from Johannesburg, South Africa. Nangamso is an archivist, creative researcher and artist with a passion for African literature. She recently spoke on a panel in Mozambique about African feminist storytelling as a political practice in terms of memory work and resisting the exclusionary history of knowledge production.

Here are her 5 Favourites:⁠

  1. The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello Duiker (South African)⁠
  2. These Bones Will Rise Again by Panashe Chigumadzi (Zimbabwean)⁠
  3. Astonishing the Gods by Ben Okri (Nigerian-British)⁠
  4. Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (Nigerian)⁠5. An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (Nigerian)

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