MALAY MOSAIC, the echoes of Alastu

232pp., paperback, Ubumntu Publishers, Cape Town, 2026

ISBN: 9781049227597

A novel set in the Bo-Kaap that celebrates Cape Malay heritage, faith, ancestral wisdom and spiritual resilience in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Sociologist Yumnah Jones, who lives with a visual and hearing impairment, grew up in Tafelsig, Mitchell’s Plain. The founder of Journeys Of Her, a project that profiles stories of African women who have overcome adversity, she is the author of the novella  She Who Dreams and the disability awareness chlldren's books Aisha's Ears.