Welcome to Vol. 2, Issue 8 of The Johannesburg Review of Books!

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma and Panashe Chigumadzi in conversation: Meditations on the traumas and triumphs of Zimbabwe's histories

Nelson Mandela's 'new' collection of prison dispatches signs his name across our hearts: Bongani Madondo reviews The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

'Historical fiction is a way of fighting rootlessness'—Ayesha Harruna Attah discusses her new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga

How to eat a small child–Yemisi Aribisala considers the question of representation in books for children of colour and the legacy of Little Black Sambo

[Sponsored] An exciting new African voice—An excerpt from Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu's debut novel The Theory of Flight

[The JRB Exclusive] 'The colonisers were right: the mbira is dangerous'—An excerpt from Panashe Chigumadzi's These Bones Will Rise Again

[Sponsored] Hold—an intimate, powerful coming-of-age debut novel set in Ghana and London by Michael Donkor

A curiously enthralling existentialist novel—Wamuwi Mbao reviews OK, Mr Field, the debut novel by South African poet Katharine Kilalea

'Language switching is the norm in Kenya; I just wrote the way we speak'—Makena Onjerika chats to The JRB about her Caine Prize success

The Durban Riots and an 'ambitious re-examination' of the relationship between Africans and Indians–Alex Lichtenstein reviews Jon Soske's Internal Frontier

[Sponsored] Celebrate BlackBird Books's third birthday! (Plus: 3 for 2 special offer on BlackBird Books titles)

[City Editor] Borders and books—Niq Mhlongo travels to Nairobi with ninety of his novels

A place where paradox lives and breathes—Francine Simon reviews Chatsworth, Pravasan Pillay's debut short story collection

Read an excerpt from Megan Ross's debut poetry collection, Milk Fever

[Photo Editor] New short fiction: 'Water Treason' by Andile Ndlovu

[Sponsored] Listen to an excerpt from The People in the Trees, the debut novel from Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life

[Photo Editor] Original portraits of Mohale Mashigo and Niq Mhlongo by Victor Dlamini

[The JRB Exclusive] 'What African Nationalism Is'—Read an excerpt from Africa's Cause Must Triumph: The Collected Writings of AP Mda

Seoul and Sky: JMG Le Clézio's new novel, Bitna, sous le ciel de Séoul

'Kasala for Myself'—New jazz-suffused poetry from Fiston Mwanza Mujila featured in Asymptote, in English and French

Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika wins the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing