Pumla Dineo Gqola 
A Renegade Called Simphiwe 

A feminist exploration of the public lives of performer Simphiwe Dana – a rebel with several causes, in eight essays, award winning author, Prof Gqola brilliantly shows why Dana is arguably one of the most significant cultural figures working in contemporary South Africa today. Fluctuating public responses to Ms Dana show us something about South African sensitivities to Blackness, femininity, language and the imagination. 

About the author

Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola is the author of What is Slavery to Me? (WITS Press, 2010) A Renegade called Simphiwe (MFBooks 2013), Alan Paton Award Winner 2016, Rape A South African Nightmare (MF Books 2015) and Alan Paton Award Long-listed Reflecting Rogue (MF Books, 2018)? Her highly anticipated new book Female Fear Factory is out in August, 2020.