Culture
Fleeing the City: Out of Johannesburg
The city people try too hard. Want love but do not know what it is. How do you blame them? There is no love in the city. They want happiness but they forgot how to smile.
Culture Review contributor
Mbe Mbhele
Writing and conversation concerning Black lives.
12 published stories
The writing
Stories by Mbe Mbhele
Culture
A Conversation With Artists In Four Parts
It is not clear how I became a writer. There was no definitive moment. Growing up, I would journal, and also had stints trying rap and poetry. After all, where I come from there were no writers.
Culture
when the world screams
kasi romance / buy her a kota, tennis biscuits or some halls / just before you sneak into the backroom / hand above the skirt / ‘baby, i wont insert all of it’
Culture
Biko’s Wildest Nightmare
It is 2016, thick in the midst of student protests. A poster is taped onto a white wall inside the Wits School of Arts, and what draws my attention are the bold letters IPHUPHO L’KA BIKO. I am intrigued, and I want to se...
Culture
Returning to Kwa Mai Mai
Culture
Koketso’s Defiant Blues
But let’s be blunt, for most of us liberation has become synonymous with the neatly trimmed lawns of Sandton, desires of walking the dog on the clean pavements of Bryanston all the while speaking English from the nasal....
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