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Book of the Week: Letters from South Africa

Lidudumalingani Mqombothi

Simon Richardson

Book of the Week: Letters from South Africa: Episode 4: This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Letters From South Africa

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Episode 4: This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Letters from South Africa

This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Letters from South Africa, This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi on life in South Africa during the week of ANC elections.

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi reads the third of five letters by five local writers exploring life in South Africa in the week of the African National Congress conference.

Five letters from five South African writers exploring aspects of life there in the week of the ANC elections - covering education, bureaucracy, city living, xenophobia and migration. These novelists and journalists reflect on living in South Africa now.

Author Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, winner of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing, reflects on his mother's memories of participating in South Africa's first democratic election, and on the educational prospects facing his generation of young South Africans who came after.

Lidudumalingani Mqombothi is a writer, filmmaker and photographer. He was born in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, in a village called Zikhovane. He has published short stories, non-fiction and criticism in various publications. His films have been screened at a number of film festivals.

Written and read by Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
Produced by Simon Richardson.

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Five letters from South African writers about life there in the week of the ANC elections.

Five letters from five South African writers exploring aspects of life in the week of the ANC elections.

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