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Häftad, Xhosa, 2021
207 kr
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When Rains Come, Mzi Mahola''s second collection is strongly reminiscent of William Blake''s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. The childhood poems, gently nostalgic for a rural and traditional upbringing, are told in a voice that hints at premonitions of regret and anger. The adult poems contemplate the toll taken by liberation on the moral values of a traditional upbringing. The anger is controlled and the bitterness tempered by compassion and humane clear-sightendnedss.On Strange ThingsThe myth here expressed is one of a general, sociological Fall, ad is located in the cultural matrix of Intabazebhukazana, Hogsback mountains, which is both a physical and imaginative Eden and Wilderness-Nicholas Meihuzen, English Academy Review"...a regretful subtlety that retains a nostalgic innocence while acknowledgng the harsh adult realities.-Stanley Nyamfukudza, SA Review of BooksMahola''s tone is intensely private, usually meditative and spmbre; and his style has a humble simplicity that might cause his observations to be overlooked.-Chris Doherty, New CoinMzi Mahola was born in 1949 in Lushington, near Alice, in the eastern Cape and grew up under the Hogsback Mountains. He moved to New Brighton and in 1979 became the South African amateur bantamweight champion. He worked for the Port Elizabeth Museum, first as a technical assistant, then as a n educator, until 1997. In 1999 he completed a BA Honors degree in Literature from Vista University with a dissertation on the poet Tatamkhulu Afrika. He married and has four children.Carapace poets is an imprint of SNAILPRESS.When rains come is a seventh in a series of collections assciated with Carapace Magazine.Mzi Mahola''s second anthology ''When Rain Comes'' was published in 2000 by Carapace and won a Rhode''s University Olive Schreiner Literature Prize and the Wits University English Academy for South Africa voted the volume, Best English Poetry Book in South Africa for the period 2000 and 2001. A common High School English poetry collection Textbook reference.
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Engelska, 2021175 kr
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Dancing with Hyenas is a tour-de-force that blends excellent prose with fact-driven stories to give a fresh perspective of the black struggle against the oppressive conditions of apartheid South Africa. The reader is taken ''behind the scenes'' to conversations and strategy sessions in which successive generations of black youths are conscientized about the ideals of the liberation struggle.In the book, author Mzi Mahola tells the stories in evocative, authentic, and thought-provoking narrative. Elsewhere he recounts the deep soul-searching exchanges among the black youth about the goals and efficacy of the Black Consciousness Movement in advancing cause of black liberation. His accounts are remarkably accurate, especially given the fifteen-year range over which the book is written.What is most refreshing about Dancing with Hyenas is the emic perspective it takes since most of the books on the topic are written by outside observers. This is a one-of-a-kind book- amust-read for any interested in learning from indigenous blacks how they were able to make meaning of the lives while confronted by vagaries and vicissitudes of that vicious system, which was finally brought down in the early 1990s.Mzamo P MangalisoProfesor, Isenberg School of ManagementUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst MADancing with Hyenas is a bout rites of passage of a young man hurled into maturity in a troubled land. Mzikayise Mahola conveys the story choosing words with the precision and dexterity of a poet, recalling events and painting them with the skill reserved for great story tellers. The book enthrals as it enables the reader to journey with Lizo through the labyrinth of dark paths in a perilous South Afica.We do not know how he will, survive the wrath of the system whose vultures always hover with devilish zeal and sickening patience. Lizo thrives in a world that betrays taleneted and ambitious youth. Mahola lucidly captures the snippets of history, sharing hopes and shattered dreams in the trapping of the old South Africa. Indeed, this book is a piece of history that exemplifies how many young people experienced the rough ride into brittle futures.Vuysile T. MsilaProfessor and Head, Institute for African Renaissance Studies, University of South Africa (UNISA)
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
520 kr
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Engelska, 2022211 kr
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If the cruel reality which was instituted by law and was so defended through brute force by the past Apartheid South African system is as this writing by Mzi states, why must that be forgotten, by those who fought with spirit, limb and mind against it with the objective to defeat and destroy it; or why must its perpetrators, who now become the citizens of the new dispensation, be encouraged or allowed to forget that past?If ever such a brute reality is lived through for three centuries, and so maims, damages and destroys the minds and hearts of citizens and kills its victims with impunity, do its perpetrators find a way to forgive themselves, as faith demands that those who invest the last thing they have, their lives, must also forgive themselves?Mzi is asking these questions without asking them, but asks them between the lines, when he skilfully keeps as close as possible to the truths of that past. He asks us and demands from us, to fathom those truths, lest they re-emerge in the future, because they were not considered and, thereforethey can.Professor. Mongane Wally Serote ~ South Africa National Laureate
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
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Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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Inbunden, Xhosa, 2021
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Engelska, 202062 kr
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Mzi Mahola''s childhood was spent at the foot of the Hogsback. He was educated in Port Elizabeth Lovedale and Healdtown and at the time of publication, he was an educational officer with the Port Elizabeth Museum. His life spans the experience of a whole Eastern Cape generation - a peaceful though poverty-stricken rural family with its traditions intact, coexisting with the political awareness and militancy of the past 1976 generation.His deceptive simple lucid poetry has a deep respect for the processes of nature and for traditional wisdom. It is the record of a man sadly watching these processes erode while embracing the political anger which replaces them. His work is a search for a common morality traditional and political. He is a poet writing got his people, insisting that they do not oversimplify issues. Urging them not to jettison their past as they move into the future.Published in 1994 by Snail Press. This volume received positive reviewing and was amongst those selected to represent South Africa in Geneva in a World Book Fair in 1995. Numerous translations of this collectionMy Soul MateWe entered into a covenantto tread this path togetherback to backfight our battleswater and nurse one anotherand let on one put us asunder.Yes, we knew thatno union of two mindsis ever faultlessbut all these yearswe have not knownthe taste of our tears.Our greatest ambitionif God so desiresis to shuffle the final stretchto the finishing pointholding our hands.We vowed to die with our secretof which I need not remind you;now it’s forty-two yearssince we made the promise.Beyond that horizonlooms our destination.It will benefit our offspring,if we unwrap the secret,before the sun sets,peel it to the last leafreveal what kept our lantern glowingour fountain flowingwhat fanned our lovetightly glued our familyand fundamentallywhat kept our faith rooted.My soul mate,for all these virtuesI thank you abundantly.I Dedicate Strange Thingsto my wife Lulu and childrento my peopleto friends who encouraged me to writeSuzie Mabie and Robert Berold. I Should Commit a CrimeSuddenly it dawns in methat I should unslingmy haversackset fire to the parliament houseso that I too can be internedseeing that I lack the knackto be a stranger to shameand make my family proudby bleeding the state bone dry