FRED KHUMALO | Novelist Fred Khumalo decided to revisit Ngugi waThiong'o's classic novel Weep Not, Child, but is giving it a vava-voom Covid-centric title, Weep Not, Sdakwa.
While we have every reason to complain about the banning of alcohol and cigarettes during this monstrous Covid-19 lockdown, there is a silver lining to this dark cloud.
Sources on the ground tell me that the imposition of sobriety has been a positive development which has seen many South Africans taking up their pens to write books which are likely to take this country into a new direction intellectually...If you have already registered or subscribed, please sign in to continue.
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