An extract from ‘The Broken River Tent’: ‘I chose resistance!’
In this extract from The Broken River Tent, by Mphuthumi Ntabeni, the protagonist, Phila, makes a fiery courtroom speech
Mphuthumi Ntabeni
Mending severed histories with returning shades
This novel weaves colonial fact and ancestral memory in contemporary Eastern Cape life
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Single, but not square
My single friend believes that social pressures placed on bachelors are a new phenomenon. I tell him bachelors have suffered social stigmas in many cultures. "Think of severe Roman marriage laws," I say, "that regarded old bachelors as reprehensible, barring them from advancing in a public career and prohibiting their receiving inheritance."
