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EPISODE · Jun 17, 2015 · 27 MIN

Writing a New South Africa: Place and Contested Space

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015 · host BBC World Service

Poet Thabiso Mohare travels to Cape Town to meet a new generation of writers, poets and playwrights and look at the theme of place and contested space in their work and the history of the city. He talks to Lauren Beukes, whose sci-fi visions of South African cities are internationally successful, playwright and novelist Nadia Davids about the undealt-with legacy of slavery in the city, and Thando Mgqolozana whose novels deal with a range of social issues.

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