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Mohale mashigo the yearning5/25/2023 She adds, “It would be disingenuous for me to take Afrofuturism wholesale and pretend it is ‘my size’. In the essay, Mohale speaks of a popular 1980s South African song called “Ayashis’ Amateki”, which describes a beautiful pair of shoes that do not fit the wearer. Within the opening pages of the collection, Mashigo includes an essay on Afrofuturism, a genre of speculative fiction created by African-Americans imagining a futuristic world where black people are the majority and there is an intermixing of African culture with technology. Each story explores South African contemporary issues such as being and belonging, the devastating aftermath of Apartheid-era violence and the impact of gender-based violence. The 12 short stories encompass a range of speculative fiction genres, from fantasy, to science-fiction, to magical realism. She has carried that voice into her latest offering, a collection of short stories titled “Intruders” which was launched in Rosebank, Johannesburg, on September 29. Mohale Mashigo first entered the South African literary scene with her University of Johannesburg (UJ) literary prize-winning novel, “The Yearning” (2016), with which she established herself as a powerful literary voice capable of weaving together the real and the unreal through the use of lyrical storytelling and dream-like descriptions. Award-winning South African author Mohale Mashigo’s latest collection of short stories is an electric and provocative work that explores real South African issues using the unreal.
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