Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, OBE, editor, critic, and broadcaster, is former deputy editor of Granta magazine, series editor for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, and the deputy chair of the Caine Prize for African Writing. She served as a judge for the 2015 Man Booker Prize panel. She lives in London, England.
16 Ebooks by Mark Gevisser
Mark Gevisser: Walking Girly in Nairobi
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa’s contempora …
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€0.99
Hawa Jande Golakai & Kofi Akpabli: At Home and Away
Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent. Representing the very best of African creative nonfiction, Safe House brings together works from Africa’s contempora …
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€2.99
Richard Calland & Jane Duncan: Mbeki and After
For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC lead …
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€29.99
Mark Gevisser: Thabo Mbeki
What happens to a dream deferred? This question, from one of Thabo Mbeki’s favourite poems by Langston Hughes, provides the thread for this magisterial biography of the second president of a democrat …
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€9.49
Mark Gevisser: Lost and Found in Johannesburg
An inner life of Johannesburg that turns on the author’s fascination with maps, boundaries, and transgressions This singular memoir begins with a transgression the invasion of a private home in Johan …
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€10.09
Edwin Cameron & Mark Gevisser: Defiant Desire
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here i …
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€48.90
Edwin Cameron & Mark Gevisser: Defiant Desire
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here i …
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€48.29
Mark Gevisser: Lost and Found in Johannesburg
As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play ‘Dispatcher’, a game that involved sitting in his father’s parked car (or in the study) and sending imaginary couriers on routes acr …
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€13.98
Mark Gevisser: Pink Line
The Pink Line is not just necessary reading for those who care about justice, it ought to be mandatory.’ -Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country’This is politics and poetry all at once. Th …
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€10.18
Mark Gevisser: Die pinke Linie
Für wie viele Geschlechter sollte es Toiletten geben? Manche sehen in dieser Frage nur einen Karnevalskalauer, andere nutzen sie zur Inszenierung eines Kulturkampfes. Viele Menschen erinnert sie jedo …
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€23.99
Richard Calland & Jane Duncan: Mbeki and After
For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC lead …
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English
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€19.06
Mark Gevisser: The Pink Line
Guardian’s Best Paperback of the Month ONE OF THE GUARDIAN ‘S and FINANCIAL TIMES ‘ BOOKS OF 2020 ‘In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil rights …
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€14.99
Mark Gevisser: Thabo Mbeki
Hailed in the Times Literary Supplement as ‘probably the finest piece of non-fiction to come out of South Africa since the end of apartheid’, The Dream Deferred is back in print and updated with a br …
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€13.49
Mark Gevisser & Katie Redford: The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated
Written from the maxim “it takes a lawyer, an activist, and a storyteller to change the world’, The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated shows how the law and social movements can reinforce …
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€9.99
Mark Gevisser: Pink Line
A groundbreaking examination of how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today.More than seven years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line is an exploration o …
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€25.77
Mark Gevisser: Lost and Found in Johannesburg
An intimate map of the South African city during and after apartheid: "Illuminating, unsettling, engrossing, often funny, and, in a word, brilliant." -Claire Messud, New York Times-bestsell …
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€22.93
