Please, Take Photographs   by Sindiwe Magona

Sindiwe Magona’s poems conspire with her. Even years after being written, they still seem warm from her lips, and it is this residue of her telling them that draws you into their confidence. From the languid innocence of the poems about her village, to her shattering images of Africa at war, Magona leads you headlong into her fireside circle where archetypes flicker like shadows on a face that has seen, and been. Please, Take Photographs! is defiant and tender, horrific and homely, at once irreverent, outspoken and beautiful.

About the author
Sindiwe Magona is a multi-award winning author of plays, essays, novels, memoir, educational books for children and poetry. She was born in Tsolo, in the Tranksei in 1943 and now lives in Cape Town. Apart from her prolific writing, she worked as an Information Officer at the UN in New York for twenty-five years. She runs the Gugluethu Writers' Group on a voluntary basis; she is particularly proud that the writers have published a collection of short stories and one has a novel coming out in November from a major publisher! She is an outspoken critic of all forms of injustice and she is a tireless activist especially for women’s rights now as the AIDS pandemic continues to take its toll in South Africa. Please, Take Photographs is her first collection of poetry.

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