It is election day in South Africa and I thought it was fitting to highlight the following book and "meet the author" event organised by Exclusive Books.
We invite you to celebrate the launch of Is it Coz I’m Black; a unique opportunity to meet and talk to the author.
VENUE: Exclusive Books, The Zone
DATE: Tuesday, 5 May 2009
TIME: 6 for 6:30pm
RSVP: Exclusive Books on: 011 327 5736
About the Book
The much-anticipated follow-up to Ndumiso Ngcobo’s best-selling Some Of My Best Friends Are White sees the urban Zulu warrior returning to aim his streetwise eye at a fresh range of typically South African characters and social issues. With chapters titles such as "Jou Ma Se Passion Gap", "Come Off It! You’d Kill For Julius Malema" and "The Afrikaner-Americans Of The East Rand", his range of targets this time around includes various incantations of his coloured cousins, the mind-bogglingly awful South African driver, personal-security paranoia that sees us living in Amish-style complex enclosures, black men with condom troubles, the notion that our "xenophobia" is actually xenophobia, the ludicrous mammal-sacrificing ceremonies of traditional African weddings, general government incompetence and very very scary angry-white-male syndrome.
About the Editor
Ndumiso Ngcobo was born in Mpumalanga Township in KwaZulu-Natal. Raised on a rural diet of conservative Catholicism and Zulu traditionalism, he managed to successfully incorporate writing and beer drinking into his daily corporate life. His first book, Some Of My Best Friends Are White, was shortlisted for the Neilsen Bookseller’s Choice Award 2008. He has subsequently been widely published in various South African media, and has become one of the most widely read bloggers on the Mail & Guardian-hosted site www.thoughtleader.co.za. He was the first blogger to receive official media accreditation for an ANC conference (in Polokwane).
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