These stories from the closing days of apartheid rule in South
Africa won the Noma Award, Africa's highest literary award, and
announced Njabulo Ndebele as an assured and impressive literary
voice. He has gone on to become one of the most powerful voices for
cultural freedom on the whole of the African continent today.
Ndebele evokes township life with humor and subtlety, rejecting the
image of black South Africans as victims and focusing on the
complexity and fierce energy of their lives. "Our literature," says
Ndebele, "ought to seek to move away from an easy preoccupation
with demonstrating the obvious existence of oppression. It exists.
The task is to explore how and why people can survive under such
harsh conditions." About Njabulo Ndebele: now Chancellor of
Witwatersrand University in South Africa. Ndebele began publishing
these stories from exile in Lesotho during the 1980s. Ndebele is
now recognised as a major voice in South Africa's cultural life.
This is his only fiction collection available in Europe or North
America. Ndebele's stories first began appearing in Staffrider
magazine, an innovative publishing venture linked to the Soweto
branch of South African PEN. Founded after the bloody Soweto riots
of the mid-1970s, the magazine took as its symbol the staffriders,
un-ticketed commuters from the black townships who every day clung
onto or balanced on top of buses and trains to get into the cities
to work. Staffrider magazine, and in particular Ndebele's stories,
helped define a new tone in black South African literature that
went beyond and finally overcame apartheid.
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