Deon Meyer’s post-apocalyptic novel, Fever, opens with Nico Storm, the narrator, and his father being attacked by dogs. Nico is only thirteen years old, but is forced to shoot the dogs to rescue his father. This incident ...

The Afrikaans poetry collections grond/Santekraam (2011) by Ronelda S. Kamfer and bientang (2020) by Jolyn Phillips both centralise the ocean and both deal with attempts at recovering repressed black histories. Apart from ...

In this article, the focus is on Black Panther: a nation under our feet, a comic book series written by American public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates. The point of departure is Coates’s idea of ‘the Mecca’, a term he uses ...

In this article, the representations of the ocean in Afrikaans poet Ronelda S. Kamfer’s grond/Santekraam (2011) and in ‘Water’, a poem in Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia (2017) are compared. Meg Samuelson’s identification ...