The Shadow Follows, by David Medalie food & drink

The Shadow Follows, by David Medalie food & drinkIt is August on the highveld a time of dust, wind and melancholy. Distracted only for a moment by the unremarkable person in the cinema noisily excavating his popcorn, Deanna's real concern is that she might be HIV positive, having stabbed herself in the thumb after giving an injection to a patient. She hasn't heard from her brother in days and doesn't seem to have a clue that he's busy fighting off a silent obsession with her estranged husband

most exotical of all

But this reflection on the art of writing is not a lament for unfinished work

As a subtle way of making people believe you speak French

Nega Mezlekia recalls in vivid detail his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga

And that the average person eats a ton of food a year

at once more inviting and more dangerous

And might he still be alive

Ta-Nehisi Coates imagines the covert war of an enslaved people in response to a generations-long human atrocity - a war for the right to life

theological and geographical

is about the career of his country's former political strongman

It will touch your life and make you believe that every one of us

political and economic elevation of those who are centred within its magic circle