Trends and Tropes: Some Aspects of African Indigenous Literatures of South Africa

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa. These include narratological elements of literature, language usage, poetry analysis, and song lyrics.

E.D.M. Sibiya, also known as Dumisani Sibiy, is an award-winning novelist, short story writer and poet. Sibiya is a three times winner of the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature for his novels Kungasa Ngifile, Ngidedele Ngife and Ngiyolibala Ngifile. Sibiya has been the recipient of several academic excellence awards as well. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Publishing Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Zilibele Mtumane is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of African Languages and the School of Languages at the University of Johannesburg. He holds the degree of DLitt.et Phil from the University of South Africa, specialising in African languages.