Happiness Quote by John Kani

“If you are truly telling a South African story then it will be political — because you are dealing with people who lead political…

— Zakes Mda

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get…

— Athol Fugard

My reporting in Africa wouldn't be political per se, but it's certainly the point of my reporting - and of a lot of other…

— Sebastian Junger

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

— Zola Budd

If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.

— Alan Paton

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape…

— Athol Fugard

I try not to get too political. But coming from South Africa, where apartheid was a huge problem, and there was lots of inequality,…

— Kevin Anderson

Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic…

— Doris Lessing

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how,…

— Chris Abani

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists…

— Nelson Mandela

There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part…

— Lynn Nottage

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

— Paul Kagame