Reviewed by Beaven Tapureta The Testament of Black Jesus (2024), an epic by the award-winning protest poet Philani Amadeus Nyoni, presents a black saviour who, according to the poet’s words, ‘rises to speak great and dangerous words’. The saviour has a responsibility thrust upon her by past events, to spread the legacy, good or bad,…
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Fiction
Short Story by Philani Amadeus Nyoni
“A pale ghost in my shadow, a diminutive flake-white elf awkwardly juxtaposed against my gangling form limping through the emerging twilight. That’s the image that stuck to the front of my mind for hours with a song in my head, our first sunset retold in a jazz rhythm” (from ‘Faces’ by Philani Nyoni).