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àfestival in Durban in March, author THANDO MGQOLOZANA announced that heââ¬â¢d forsworn white colonial literary festivals and that heââ¬â¢d be attending only one more such event. Mgqolozana was, of course, referring to the Franschhoek Literary Festival, which kicks off on Friday. He told Theresa Mallinson hisàreasons.
Rejecting white colonial literary festivals is not a sudden decision Iââ¬â¢ve made. The decision has been growing in me since I first published a book, A Man Who is Not a Man, in June 2009. Iââ¬â¢ve been thinking a lot about it and I decided the situation was too uncomfortable for me to not do something.
Theresa Mallinson 27 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Theresa Mallinson is the assistant editor for The Daily Vox, and curates The Top of the Vox Friday email. She also occasionally writes for Beacon Reader on press freedom and media innovation, and is an exco member of Hacks/Hackers Johannesburg. Theresa was previously a journalist at The Daily Maverick and the managing editor of Free African Media. You can follow her on Twitter.