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INTERVIEW: AUTHOR KAMANEE GOVENDER

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On today’s edition of Styleskoops, we turn the spotlight on a powerful new South African voice in fiction, writer and filmmaker Kamanee Govender. Her debut novel, Stern Gods, is a haunting coming-of-age story set in 1980s apartheid South Africa, where eleven-year-old Kaathi Reddy navigates poverty, patriarchy, and violence in the Indian township of Bombayville. It’s an unflinching yet deeply empathetic portrait of girlhood, resilience, and survival in a fractured world. Kamanee joins us to talk about the inspirations behind Stern Gods, the silences it breaks, and the healing it hopes to spark in readers’ lives.
31 Aug English South Africa Arts · Music

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