Beneath the Lion's Gaze Maaza Mengiste 150-200Beneath the Lion's Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu's youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement a choice that will lead
“Madness” is narrated by Amar
a trio of ex-convicts touring the country with violin
Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration
Malphayowa has learnt that there is more to life than computer games
lokha nakethula umnganakhe
they have been involved in changing not only Africa's cityscapes and societies
Patrice Motsepe
He shares the lessons he’s learnt through the different phases of his life with infectious positivity
and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s
Although widely known as the Afrikaner communist who saved Nelson Mandela from the gallows
Ruben Olivier leads an isolated existence in a Cape Town suburb
This new edition of the play includes an introduction which sets the work in its historical context
