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In a Ribbon of Rhythm

Lebogang Mashile · 2005 CE · Poem · South African · Contemporary

A first collection of performance poems by a Johannesburg poet and actor, written in the first decade after apartheid. The poems speak of the black woman's body, family and the city, and of the work of finding a voice. It received the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 2006.

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