Unathi Slasha is a writer from Despatch, Khayamnandi. He is the author of the novella Jah Hills and the chapbook Much with the Dead & Mum with the Dying, or: Rigidities of Rationalism, Camaraderie Criticism & Contemporary South African Literature. His work has been published in several South African and international literary journals. His work is an attempt to reimagine and subvert Nguni folklore to write what he coined as The Unlanguaged World.

“What you’re holding right now is a kind of bomb. I’m not sure I want to tell you how to defuse it.” -Kris Saknussemm, author of Private Midnight