The Day Mandela is arrested – Lewis Nkosi
Reading and conversation with Lewis Nkosi, Basel 1999
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Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South
Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of
literature in various African and European countries as well as in
the USA. Living in exile since 1960, he resided in Basel between
1997 and 2010. On 11th November 1999 he gave a reading from his yet
unpublished novel “Mandela’s Ego” (2006) at the BAB. In the
extracts of the audio recording presented here, he explains his
motivation to write about ‘the day Mandela is arrested’, reads from
his novel and reflects about the challenges of also writing in his
mother tongue isiZulu. The BAB Publishing House published the
monograph Lewis Nkosi. The Black Psychiatrist | Flying Home: Texts,
Perspectives, Homage which consists of two plays by Lewis Nkosi and
reflections, critical appraisals and memories by friends and
scholars on the life and work of this South African writer.
Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of
literature in various African and European countries as well as in
the USA. Living in exile since 1960, he resided in Basel between
1997 and 2010. On 11th November 1999 he gave a reading from his yet
unpublished novel “Mandela’s Ego” (2006) at the BAB. In the
extracts of the audio recording presented here, he explains his
motivation to write about ‘the day Mandela is arrested’, reads from
his novel and reflects about the challenges of also writing in his
mother tongue isiZulu. The BAB Publishing House published the
monograph Lewis Nkosi. The Black Psychiatrist | Flying Home: Texts,
Perspectives, Homage which consists of two plays by Lewis Nkosi and
reflections, critical appraisals and memories by friends and
scholars on the life and work of this South African writer.
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