Category: Book Review

By Jojokhala C. Mei Amy Griffin’s THE TELL: A MEMOIR is a professional and comfortable New York mother’s surreal, raging, and eventually harrowing first person account of her mind on … Read More

By Jojokhala C. Mei Traditional African male initiation documentaries, or fiction in South Africa is as controversial as Jeffrey Rakabe’s debut 2025 memoir-cum-manifesto Led By Shepherds: An Intimate Memoir gets. … Read More

By Jojokhala Mei If you doubt the redoubtable Nic Mhlongo’s penchant for storytelling, then his latest short story collection For You, I’d Steal A Goat, will purge such thoughts. The … Read More

By Jojokhala C. Mei Come to think of it, lawyer Razina Theba’s 2021 coming of age memoir set on the western flank of the Johannesburg Central Business District brandishes no … Read More

By Edward tsumele, Editor, CITYLIFE/ARTS This week a leader in the cultural and creative sector, known for his activism and calling out officials at the Department of Sport, Arts and … Read More

By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor I first met Kasper Bechsgaard in an overcrowded Weed Lovers’ Market, that place in Marshalltown, Johannesburg CBD, which to be honest I have a complicated … Read More

This came through a chance reading of her popular novel Somone Else’s Shoes one December day of 2024, when I picked the book from Melville Library’s book shelves. By Edward … Read More