Love child

Gcina Mhlophe's writing is published all over the world, and has been translated into German, French, Italian, Swahili and Japanese. Her honours include: BBC Africa Service Award for Radio Drama, The Fringer First Award at Edinburgh Festival, Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago, OBBIE in New York, Honorary Doctorates from London Open University and University of Natal in South Africa.

Offering personal and political insights, this is a collection of poems and stories. Here, the author shares her personal journey through the social and political landscapes of the 1980s, with its recollected moments of struggle and transformation along the way. She manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history.Gcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and storyteller. In this retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey through the social and political landscapes of the 1980s, with its recollected moments of struggle and transformation along the way. Written in a variety of styles and voices, ranging from anecdotal memory to historical moment to folklore tradition, these simply presented poems and stories are by turns funny, touching, chilling, thought-provoking and absorbing. ""Love Child"" is a collection for the new millennium generation. It is valuable not just for the deeply-felt personal and political insights is has to offer, but for the accessible ease with which it manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history in the preserving amber of the author's personal recollection.