The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni current-affairs-1

The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni current-affairs-1The Broken River Tent is a novel that marries imagination with history. It is about the life and times of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief who was at the forefront of fighting British colonialism in the Eastern Cape during the nineteenth century. The story is told through the eyes of a young South African, Phila, who suffers from what he calls triple N condition neurasthenia, narcolepsy and cultural ne plus ultra. This makes him feel far removed from events

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But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour

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Poppie and her children were forcibly removed from their home and "resettled" in a new township

Some of his best-known novels include Ways of Dying (1995

He escapes and returns home to his mother

renewal and revenge

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