A creative from of publishing, by Mike Maphoto:
From mud huts, umqomboti and straightback to penthouses, expensive weaves and moet!The author in conversation with Africa in Words:
Mike Maphoto’s ‘Diary of a Zulu Girl’ blog is something of a digital literature phenomenon. Since it began a scant five months ago in April 2013, it has had more than 10 million page views from 22 countries, spawned numerous copycat diaries online and is set to become a television series as well as a self-published book. Told from the point of view of Thandeka, a young girl from South Africa’s rural KwaZulu-Natal, the diary chronicles her life in the sprawling metropolis of Johannesburg, where she has come to study law at Wits University...[more]