Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-Winning Author and Anti-Apartheid Activist, Is Dead

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 6:19 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

I feel obliged to begin by confessing that, when it came to reading the works of white authors in Apartheid South Africa, my interest did not extend much beyond those of Athol Fugard. No doubt this is because Fugard didn’t just write provocative, anti-Apartheid plays (like his pioneering Blood Knot in 1961); he also defied… Read more.

South Africa ‘Betraying Its [ANC] Values’

Friday, May 13, 2011 at 5:54 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

I am acutely mindful that my commentaries on the growing pains of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are taking on the specter of flogging a dead horse. This is why I am loath to write yet another one on the following regressive phenomenon that is now unfolding there: African leaders once personified unbridled despotism. Now they’re… Read more.