MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Flawed account of south-west Africa’s freedom fight
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Long Road to Liberation: An Exiled Namibian Activist’s Perspective
by Hans Beukes
(Porcupine Press, £12)
NAMIBIA’S road to liberation from its illegal annexation by South Africa was long and painful.
Today, the country enjoys freedom, stability and success but, like South Africa, freedom and independence has not ushered in an era of real democracy or social justice.
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