Book review: Zakes Mda’s subversive take on Lesotho’s traditions
Book review: Zakes Mda’s subversive take on Lesotho’s traditions: Portrait of a Lesotho shepherd, Ntoaesele Mashongoane. JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images In 2019 at the Abantu Book Festival in Soweto, South African writer and artist Zakes Mda was celebrating the publication of his final novel, The Zulus of New York, when he made a surprise …