BOOK REVIEWS: Chasing the Tails Of My Father’s Cattle and Little Suns
THE Greek philosopher Plato said that the muses gave us the arts not for "mindless pleasure", but "as an aid to bringing our soul-circuit, when it is out of tune, into order and harmony with itself".SA’s foremost storytellers Sindiwe Magona and Zakes Mda travel back through time to the Eastern Cape to help craft answers to a question that burns through SA today: what racial scars are bruising our souls?They describe the clash of civilisations when the settlers arrived with their Bibles and guns, the growing competition for resources and the vanquishing of proud and noble kingdoms.DetailsTITLE: Little SunsAUTHOR: Zakes MdaPUBLISHER: UmuziMda tells the true history of the exile of members of his family under the leadership of King Mhlontlo ka Matiwane — from Qumbu to Lesotho — following the assassination of the British magistrate Hamilton Hope in October 1880. He is remarkably adept in resuscitating words from the mouths of the long departed.Like his previous bestseller The Heart of R...
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