Zama Moyo

The Oude Leeskamer is neither a standalone residential home nor an office park. It is neither a gallery nor a restaurant. But it is somehow all of these things, and […]

Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch kondig met groot opgewondenheid aan dat die Johannesburgse skrywer Zama Moyo gekies is vir hul eerste skrywersresidensie, wat in April by […]

The Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Oude Leeskamer in Stellenbosch are thrilled to announce that Johannesburg writer Zama Moyo is the recipient of their first writer’s residency, taking place at Oude […]

I’ve just written to my Pen Pal Jodie Groener, who has in fact somehow felt like a kindred soul the moment we were e-introduced by a mutual friend.In my letter […]

At a certain point in your life there will appear to be a general theme of things coming up again and again. Something you heard in the conversation with the […]

As we commemorate the extraordinary life of Professor Jakes Gerwel, I will begin by pointing out three points of convergence between his and my life. First, I spend a lot […]

Do not launch podcasts with everykindred soul that you meet. Hold holyThose interactions, exchangesthose unexpected friendships born in coffeeshops,borne of sprightly and sporadic reverie.   Ah, you’re into Dostoyevsky too, […]

If you try to gaze your gaze at Something in the corner of your eye, It ceases to be                                 peripheral. * You must trust the blurry Truth, without before […]

Do not let the hard moons pass by(e) Are they not congruent with the cycle of the sun? Do they not share the same Space with the Stars? And as […]

Before addressing the ‘so what?’ of this series of articles (as promised at the end of last week’s post), I want to turn one last aspect of the topic itself. […]

In last week’s post, I spoke about standardization as ubiquity- the notion that wealth is and ought to be freely available to everyone. The second dimension of standardization is the […]

First, I want to foreground the idea that opulence has been rendered or portrayed as ubiquitous. It is freely available if only one would satisfy some arbitrary criteria of ‘hard […]

I had intended to do a kind of close study on the words ‘conversion’ and ‘conversation’ in order to tease out how they are related. In scholarly terms, then, I […]

Love must of necessity quiet beAnd set the beloved boundlessly freeNot silent; let voices of doubt decreeAnd ruin the prospect of bended knee.

In the spirit of full disclosure, let me start by telling you that when Anelisa asked if I could write on courage, I was hesitant. It wasn’t because it’s a […]

Semantics is why South Africans get mad when our president offers an apology for the confusion as opposed to his wrongdoing. That’s not splitting hairs; that’s holding the Prime Servant […]

I was watching Isibaya a few weeks ago before I left South Africa. One of the characters had organized for his wife to be away watching movies with her friend […]

In marital sex, there seems a perfect-terrific-confluence of desire and dutyDuty and desire;Where ‘want’ and ‘should’intermingleAnd one cannot tell themApart.

I haven’t written anything in a while, but I’ve been itching to.My ideas range from a follow-up novel (my debut project is in development) to a completely new one (the […]

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