– Eusebius McKaiser, author, broadcaster and political analyst

“I had great fun reading this
exquisite novella, written by the
excellent Pan-African intellectual
Adekeye Adebajo.
I recommend it highly!”

“… a short book
that is required
reading for
these times.”

– Mark Gevisser, author of The Pink Line: Journeys across the
world’s queer frontiers

– Saul Dubow, author of South Africa’s Struggle for Human Rights

“…the Kruger Park and
South African ideas of nature and
nationality are revealed in
profoundly new and insightful
ways …”

– Professor Gillian Straker, co-author of The Talking Cure

“A rare and intimate insight…
A deeply ironic, humorous and yet
compassionate and informative
book.”

– Johannesburg Review of Books

“The stories seek to understand,
reconstruct, reinvent and recover
this city space… funny, shocking,
violent, absurd, strangely
tender and memorable.”

– Professor Hakim Adi, University of Chichester, England

“A major contribution to our
understanding of the life and work
of key figures in the history of
Pan-Africanism”

– Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, The Guardian

“This Mournable Body is a sublime
reckoning with the young, sparkling
Tambu of Nervous Conditions by
her wry, adult self...”