Siphiwo mahala biography sample paper

          PDF | On Jul 12, , Luan Staphorst published Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala) |.!

          An engaging read, well-researched and accessible. It offers new insights not only on Can
          Themba – the subject of the book – but on his era, his peers, and the movement that later
          became known as the Sophiatown Renaissance.

          Dr Siphiwo Mahala is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Johannesburg.

        1. The Sendibeng Book Club in Guateng, South Africa hosted Siphiwo Mahala in a book club meet centered on his new book Can Themba.
        2. PDF | On Jul 12, , Luan Staphorst published Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography (Siphiwo Mahala) |.
        3. Siphiwo Mahala's biography of legendary journalist and author Can Themba paints a harrowing image of a gifted genius who was driven to self-destruction.
        4. Siphiwo Mahala is an academic, short story writer, novelist, and playwright.

          5. Mahala captures the period and its politics
          so vividly that he makes the reader critically aware of how it felt to be in those events, rather
          than merely chronicling them.
          — Professor Zakes Mda, novelist, poet and playwright, Professor Emeritus of English, Ohio University and Creative Writing Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University.

          A satisfying chemistry radiates from every page of Siphiwo Mahala’s biography of Can
          Themba.

          Mahala’s clarity, vivid narration, and fi rm touch do full justice to the life and work of
          Themba, a brilliant artist who was mercurial and troubled in equal measure. The result is an
          affectionate and astute biography that reaches across the generations.
          — Professor David Attwell, author and Professor of English, University of