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On 27 August 1943, the South African writer Sindiwe Magona was born. She grew up in Gugulethu, a Cape Town township, and worked as a domestic worker while completing her secondary education by correspondence. Magona later graduated from the University of South Africa. She writes autobiographies, novels, short stories and poems.

Due to unexpected maintenance work, the African Library will be closed on Thursday 20 August and Friday 21 August. The front desk will be available during these works. You are welcome to visit the Library again during the weekend and from Monday 24 August. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Late July 2026, seventy thousand Moroccans, many of them under eighteen, travelled hundreds of kilometres toward the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. Within days almost all of them were back. A new blog by Chaimaa Radouani follows what happened to their bodies before, during and after that crossing.