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