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Author, musician and broadcaster Mohale Mashigo hosts this extended conversation with Krystle Zara Appiah, Pumla Dineo Gqola and Sue Nyathi on love and loneliness as they intersect with feminist thought.
Appiah is the author of Half Lives, a novel exploring the diverging paths of a single decision. Gqola is a professor and cultural critic known for Rape: A South African Nightmare and her extensive writing on gender-based violence and feminist theory in South Africa. Nyathi's novel The Polygamist examines marriage, power and desire within a polygamous household.
Framed around the idea that intimacy carries political weight, the panel considers how contemporary fiction and criticism approach relationships, isolation and desire against a backdrop of social instability. Expect the conversation to move between the personal registers of the panellists' fiction and Gqola's broader theoretical framing of feminism in the South African context.