The speed of life - Poetry Archive
I just wish to pace through my journey at the regular speed of life, forever with no cameras, counsellors, note-takers, translators and the archbishop.
Makhosazana Xaba - Poetry Archive
In ‘The Speed of Life’ the pleas of a subject called to question by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (‘It feels so long ago, so unclear’) are heard and put aside, as the speaker ‘ask[s] for silence’ that is beyond the continuous upheaval of bureaucracy and arbitration.
Xaba, Makhaosazana | African Poetry Digital Portal
Makhosazana Xaba was born in South Africa in 1957. She is the author of several poetry collections including: The Alkalinity of Bottled Water, These Hands, and Tongues of Their Mothers. She trained as a nurse before obtaining a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Witswatersrand.
Makhosazana Xaba - Wikipedia
Makhosazana Xaba (born 10 July 1957) is a South African poet and short-story writer. She trained as a nurse and has worked a women's health specialist in NGOs, as well as writing on gender and health.
She said, he said, we said - Poetry Archive
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Makhosazana Xaba - Poetry Africa
2006: MAKHOSAZANA (KHOSI) XABA was born in 1957 in Greytown, Kwazulu-Natal. She grew up in Ndaleni, Richmond and matriculated at Inanda Seminary. Khosi trained at Edendale Nursing College and later acquired a degree in Nursing Education and Administration from the University of Zululand. It was during this period that she entrenched herself in politics. She went into exile during the second ...
Books by Makhosazana Xaba (Author of Running and Other Stories) - Goodreads
Makhosazana Xaba has 23 books on Goodreads with 2065 ratings. Makhosazana Xaba’s most popular book is Queer Africa.
Makhosazana Xaba (Editor of Queer Africa) - Goodreads
Makhosazana Xaba is the author of Queer Africa (3.74 avg rating, 173 ratings, 37 reviews, published 2013), Queer Africa (3.70 avg rating, 53 ratings, 13 ...
ZAPP - South African Poetry Project
Makhosazana Xaba is an anthologist, essayist, poet and writer of short stories. Her poetry has been anthologised widely and translated into isiXhosa, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, SeTswana and Turkish and her edited anthologies have been translated into Spanish.
Makhosazana Xaba – Poetry Africa
Her 2019 edited anthology, Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000–2018, was a co-winner of the 2021 HSS Awards. Xaba’s Izimpabanga Zomhlaba is her translation of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth into isiZulu.