Langa, Mandla
About Mandla Langa
Biography (CRL Rights Commission)
Biography (South African History Online)
Raditlhalo, Sam. “Mandla Langa.” Contemporary African Writers, Ojaide (ed.), 2011
"Mandla Langa, Author of The Naked Song." Mail & Guardian, 30 Aug. 1996
Reviews
Orford, Margie. “Madiba Magic: The South African Icon as Husband, Father, Son and Friend.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 6038-6039, 2018
Bushore, Jessica. “Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years.” Library Journal, vol. 142, no. 20, 2017
Hoffert, Barbara. “Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years.” Library Journal, vol. 142, no. 9, 2017
Gagiano, Annie. “The Lost Colours of the Chameleon, by Mandla Langa.” English Academy Review, vol. 27, no. 1, 2010
“South Africa.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 44, no. 4, 2009
Graham, Shane. “The Memory of Stones/Davids Story.” Africa Today, vol. 48, no. 4, 2002
Barnett, Ursula A. “The Memory of Stones.” World Literature Today, vol. 75, no. 1, 2001
Oliphant, Andries. “The Memory of Stones.” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, vol. 39, no. 2, 2001
De Kok, Ingrid. “World Literature in Review: South Africa.” World Literature Today, vol. 72, no. 3, 1998
Interviews
Drew, Allison. “Interview with Mandla Langa, Sandton, South Africa, 20 July 2001.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 20, no. 1-2, 2000
Criticism
Wessels, Michael. “Representations of Revolutionary Violence in Recent Indian and South African Fiction.” Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 43, no. 5, 2017
Washington, Salim. “Fingering the Jagged Grain: The Jazz/Blues/Mbaqanga Impulse of Mandla Langa.” World of Music, vol. 5, no. 2, 2016
Fasselt, Rebecca. “Reassessing Thematic Crossings between South Africa and Nigeria: Postcolonial Leadership and Power in Mandla Langa’s The Lost Colours of the Chameleon and Helon Habila’s Waiting for an Angel.” ARIEL, vol. 46, no. 3, 2015
Thurman, Chris. “Places Elsewhere, Then and Now: Allegory 'Before' and 'After' South Africa's Transition?” English Studies in Africa, vol. 53, no. 1, 2010
Mkhize, Jabulani. “'The Human Face of the Movement': Mandla Langa's A Rainbow on the Paper Sky.” Research in African Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, 1995
Works
Novels
The Texture of Shadows (2014)
The Lost Colours of the Chameleon (2008)
The Memory of Stones (2000)
A Rainbow on the Paper Sky (1989)
Tenderness of Blood (1987)
Short Story Collections
The Naked Song and Other Stories (1996)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“And the News Never Came.” Social Dynamics, vol. 45, no. 3, 2019
With Nelson Mandela. Dare Not Linger – The Presidential Years (2017)
“Africa's Credibility Is at Stake.” The Guardian, 24 Jun. 2008
“A Gathering of Bald Men.” World Literature Today, vol. 70, no. 1, 1996
Audio- and Audiovisual Material
In Conversation with Mandla Langa 10 Jul 2020, YouTube, 16 Jul. 2020
Profile Interview: Mandla Langa (Part 1), omny.fm, 3 Jun. 2018
Profile Interview: Mandla Langa (Part 2), omny.fm, 3 Jun. 2018
Nelson Mandela's Presidential Memoir, Dare Not Linger by Mandla Langa, YouTube, 17 Oct. 2017
Mandla Langa on His Book "The Texture of Shadows", YouTube, 29 Mar. 2015