BRAIDS & MIGRAINES

181pp., paperback, Holland House Books, Berkshire, 2025

ISBN: 9781739104764

With a Foreword by Rachel Edwards, author of Darling and Lucky.

Nomandla wins a scholarship to attend a prestigious school for girls in Durban, where she battles poverty, racism, and her own mental health.

Andile Cele has a degree in journalism from the Tshwane University of Technology, and a Creative Writing and Theory of Literature degree from the University of South Africa. An MA candidate at Stellenbosch University, she is the current holder of the Gwen Knowles-Williams Bursary. Braids & Migraines was a runner-up in The Island Prize for unpublished African novelists 2023.