Nobody Ever Said AIDS, Kwela Books, Cape TownCompiled and Edited by Nobantu Rasebotsa, Meg Samuelson and Kylie Thomas
Date of Publication: July 2004
ISBN:0-7957-0184-5
Price: R120.00
HIV/AIDS is not about statistics: it is about people living and dying with the disease, dealing daily with its impact. Here we hear their voices, bearing witness; responding to the silence of taboo with an outpouring of creative expression. Tender and honest, the twenty stories and twenty-four poems collected here explore love, sexuality, stigma and loss. These are the intimate stories that, in all the technical and academic writing on HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, have never been told.
This anthology, with a foreword by Njabulo S Ndebele (writer and vice-chancellor of UCT), brings together forty-two new and established writers from across the region – Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe – and from all walks of life. They include Michael Cope, Achmat Dangor, Ingrid de Kok, Betty Govinden, Ashraf Jamal, Rustum Kozain, Antjie Krog, Sindiwe Magona, Dambudzo Marechera, Phaswane Mpe, Kaizer M Nyatsumba, Karen Press and Jenny Robson.
A moving and at times uplifting anthology, characterised by excellent writing and deep emotional authenticity - which does not veer into sentimentality.
"Nobody Ever Said AIDS signals that writers in southern Africa have indeed begun to forge new and imaginative responses to the pandemic. Their words open the spce for us as readers to understand, to mourn, and to grieve for the collective losses facing us today. The power of this collection lies in helping to ensure that we will not have remained silent in the face of such enormous loss"- Professor Njabulo Ndebele, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town
Articles
Nobody ever said Aids
Voices in a vacuum
Talking about the pain and bravery of HIV as well as moral issues.
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