Sometimes There Is a Void
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Matthews, Joe
Mazrui, Ali
Mbatha, Congress
Mbeki, Govan
Mbeki, Jama
Mbeki, Thabo
Mbuli, Ntlabathi
McCullum, Kate
McDonald, Spree
McLaughlin, Joe
Mda, AP (Ashby Peter Solomzi)
Mda, Bles
Mda, Charles Gxumekelana Zenzile
Mda, Dini
Mda, Lizeka
Mda, Mda
Mda, Mildred Millicent
Mda Monwabisi
Mda, Neo
Mda, Nomso Samela (Thandi)
Mda, Owen (Uncle)
Mda, Phakamile (Uncle Press)
Mda, Rose
Mda, Sonwabo
Mda, Thami (Nomathamsanqa)
Mda, Thobeka
Mda, Zukile (Zuki)
Mda, Zukiswa (Zenzi)
Mda, Zwelakhe
Mdunyelwa, Sylvia
Mdutshane, Mr
Mei, Edwin
Mei, Jojo
Meiring, George
Mfono, Zanele
Mhlontlo, Chief
Mhlophe, Gcina
Mitterand, Danielle
Mkhonta, Gugu
Mkhwentla, Reuben
Moalosi, Aubrey
Modise, Joe
Moeletsi, Sam
Moerane, Michael Mosoeu
Moerane, Mofelehetsi
Moerane, Thabo
Mofelehetsi, Mr
Mofelehetsi, Pelesa
Mofokeng, Jerry
Mofolo, OK
Mofolo, Peter
Mogudi, Nelson
Mohafa, Keneiloe
Mohafa, Hopestill
Mohafa, Teboho
Mohafa, Thabang
Mohapeloa, J P
Mohapeloa, Khomo
Mohapeloa, Kingston
Mohapeloa, Santho
Mohapi, Mr
Moholi, Thabo
Mokhehle, Matlatsa
Mokhehle, Ntsu
Mokhethi, Senkey
Mokhoane, Mpapa
Mokhobo, Sebolelo
Mokitimi, Deborah Mpepuoa
Mokitimi, Mohau Meshu
Mokoae, Motena
Mokone, Steve Kalamazoo
Molapo, Dr Joel
Molapo, Kefuoe
Molapo, Mmaphosholi
Molebatsi, Natalia
Molefhe, Tebogo
Moleko, Buti
Molete, Z B
Molise, Audrey
Monau, Ruth
Morris, Debe
Mosenye, Alpheus
Mosenye, Mamathe
Moshoeshoe II, King
Moshoeshoe, Tholoana
Mosisidi, Bra Zero
Motana, Nape
Mothepu, Mokone
Mothibe, Gertrude
Motloheloa, John
Motloung, Mpho
Motloung, Sello
Motsosi, Phil
Mpepuoa, Deborah
Mphuthi, Sis’ Pat
Mpota, Lazarus
Mpotokwane, Baratang
Msomi, Welcome
Msumza, Luyanda ka
Mtlomelo, Nompendulo
Mtshula, Zanemali
Mtwa, Percy
Mudenge, Stan
Mugabe, Robert
Mugabe, Sally
Munene, Macharia
Myele, Thami
Mzamane, Mbulelo
Nasser, Abdel
’Nau, Rebecca
Ncheke, Paul
Ndebele, Njabulo
Ndlovu, Duma ka
Nemukula, Albert
Newman, Mark
Ngcuka, Bulelani
Ngema, Mbongeni
Ngoza, Mxolisi
Ngugi wa Mirii
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Ngwenya, Peter-Paul
Nicol, Mike
Njongwe, Mpumi
Nkonyeni, Nomhle
Nkosi, Gugu
Nkosi, Lewis
Nkosi, Zakes
Nkrumah, Kwame
Nkunda, Patrick
Nobantu, Cousin
Nokwe, Tu
Nombula, Chief Xhalisile
Nondyebo, Cousin
Nontsokolo, Aunt
Norman, Xoli
November, Ezra
Ntshona, Winston
Ntuli, Pitika
Nyangintsimbi, Christopher Dumisani
Nyangintsimbi, Mr
Nyerere, Mwalimu Julius
Odinga, Oginga
Orlin, Robyn
Paizee, Daphne
Palme, Lisbet
Pama, Sabelo
Peires, Jeff
Perry, Joanna
Peterson, Marie
Pokela, John Nyathi
Purkey, Malcolm
Quinn, Seabury Jr
Ralebitso, ’Matumo
Ramoeletsi, ’Maseabata
Ramonate, Mohlomi
Ramorobi, Phanuel
Rapola, Zaccharia
Reynolds, Mary
Ribane, Nakedi
Roach, Fred
Roberts, Ronald Suresh
Rula, Natie
Rupert, Anton
Rushdie, Salman
Sabata
Saito, Lois
Saro Wiwa, Ken
Scout, Gonzalez
Seakhoa, Raks
Seboni, Barolong
Seema, Mpho
Seema, Mphonyane
Seklogelo, Ray
Semenya, Caiphus
Semmelink, Ali
Semoko, Keke
Senkoto, Reggie
Senoamali, Steyn
Se-Puma, Peter
Serfontein, Hennie
Seroke, Jaki
Serote, Mongane Wally
Shabalala, Sipho
Shongwe, William
Sidzamba, Nqabande
Simon, Barney
Sisulu, Albertina
Sisulu, Elinor
Sisulu, Walter
Sisulu, Zwelakhe
Sithathi, Thabo
Sithe, Ntshiyeng
Sixishe, Desmond
Skármeta, Antonio
Skweyiya, Zola
Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso
Sonnekus, Neil
Soyinka, Wole
Spencer, Rhoma
Steadman, Ian
Steele, Dorothy
Sutu, Mafu
Swart, CR
Sykes, Roberta
Tambo, Oliver
Tatum, Wilbert
Tau, Steve
Taylor, Mavis
Thabane, Tom
Thamae, Thabang (‘Mr Top’)
Thoahlane, Palesa
Thobejane, Gabriel
Thompson, Leonard
Tindleni, Mlungisi (‘Cousin Mlungisi’)
Tlale, ’Maseipei
Tlale, Moabi
Tlale, Mokone
Tlale, Nonkosi
Tlali, Miriam
Traore, Moussa
Tsiki, Mare
Tsotsi, Wycliffe
Tube, Gordon
Twala, Sibongile
Tyelele, Motshabi
Tyson, Cicely
Van Graan, Mike
Van Niekerk, Philip
Vera, Yvonne
Verwoerd, Hendrik F
Vilakazi, Herbert
Vladislavi, Ivan
Vorster, John
Vumazonke, Xoliswa
Vundla, Mfundi
Waberi, Abdourahman Ali
Walcott, Derek
Wark, Julie
Wicomb, Zoë
Wijnhoud, Gerrit
Williams, Elly
Wilson, Harold
Winfrey, Oprah
Winters, Bob
Wolfe, George
Xaba, Nhlanhla
Xinindlu, Morrison
Yako, Boniwe
Yarrow, Bethany
Yengeni, Tony
Zani, Thami
Zimbe, John
Zuma, Jacob
A Note About the Author
Zakes Mda is
a professor of creative writing at Ohio University. He has been a visiting professor at both Yale and the University of Vermont. Among his novels (all published by FSG and/or Picador), The Heart of Redness won the Hurston/ Wright Legacy Award. He lives in Johannesburg and Athens, Ohio.
Copyright © 2011 by Zakes Mda
All rights reserved
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Originally published in 2011 by Penguin Books, South Africa
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
www.fsgbooks.com
eISBN 9781429949934
First eBook Edition : November 2011
First American edition, 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mda, Zakes.
Sometimes there is a void : memoirs of an outsider / Zakes Mda.—1st
American ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Mda, Zakes—Childhood and youth. 2. Mda, Zakes—Homes and haunts—South Africa. 3. Mda, Zakes—Homes and haunts—Lesotho. 4. Authors, South African—20th century—Biography. I. Title.
PR9369.3.M4 Z46 2012
828′.914—dc22
[B]
2011020817