A Change of TongueRandom House, 2003 - 376 pages In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are - at least on the surface - so vastly different? Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa's foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in Africa today |
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Page 167
... comes . The crowd has already been driven to the edge of hysteria . I take the megaphone with a kind of disbelief , hold the tomato case in my shaking left hand and stammer the first line . Ghangha comes and stands next to me , he ...
... comes . The crowd has already been driven to the edge of hysteria . I take the megaphone with a kind of disbelief , hold the tomato case in my shaking left hand and stammer the first line . Ghangha comes and stands next to me , he ...
Page 207
... comes striding majestically down the aisle . The expression on his little face is furiously serious . When he finally comes to the space in front of the stage , he starts to bonga , with exactly the same accents , throaty sounds and ...
... comes striding majestically down the aisle . The expression on his little face is furiously serious . When he finally comes to the space in front of the stage , he starts to bonga , with exactly the same accents , throaty sounds and ...
Page 323
... comes from there , the facts come from here . The starting point . ' Another griot adds : “ Timbuktu the oasis . Timbuktu the well of the Tuareg in the eleventh century . Timbuktu of the Malian empire of Mansa Musa in 1313. Timbuktu of ...
... comes from there , the facts come from here . The starting point . ' Another griot adds : “ Timbuktu the oasis . Timbuktu the well of the Tuareg in the eleventh century . Timbuktu of the Malian empire of Mansa Musa in 1313. Timbuktu of ...
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