IZIMPABANGA ZOMHLABA

205pp., paperback, First isiZulu Edition, Inkani Books, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9781776421541

The Wretched of the Earth by Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and political philosopher Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), translated into isiZulu by Makhosazana Xaba. The Wretched of the Earth was originally published in 1961 in French as Les Damnés de la Terre. It was first translated into English in 1963.

Makhosazana Xaba has published four collections of poetry, The Art of Waiting for Tales, found poetry from 'Grace - a novel'; These hands; Tongues of their mothers and The alkalinity of bottled water, and a collection of short stories, Running, and other stories. Her edited volume, Our Words, Our Worlds, writing on Black South African women poets, 2000-2018, was co-winner in the Non-Fiction Edited Volume category for the 2021 Human Social Sciences Award. She is Associate Professor of Practice in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg.