Tag: Book
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The Soft Life at Franschhoek Literary Festival 2023
This time next week, I’ll be at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in conversation with Joy Watson and Eva Mazza. From the FLF website: Joy Watson gets the lowdown from two writers with a frank take on sex and wealth: Lebohang Masango’s The Soft Life: Love, Choice and Modern Dating is an unjudgemental account of South…
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The Soft Life: Love, choice and modern dating
Everybody’s favourite hot topic, the soft life, examined by feminist poet, writer and researcher Become more feminine and traditional Only date men with money Forget splitting the bill 50-50 Embrace the standard of beauty with gusto This is the mantra of the modern Soft Life coach. Why live a life of drudgery and over-work when you can recline…
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My second publication as an Anthropologist
Anyone who knows me knows how much I absolutely love Johannesburg, in all its grit and grime and glory. I write poems about it. I even write children’s books about it. So, naturally, my academic efforts are dedicated to understanding this city and the people who live and love in it, as I do. My…
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Mpumi and Jabu’s Magical Day
Update (January 2022): We won a Pendoring Award! Currently available in all 11 South African languages plus French! There’s magic in the air as Mpumi and Jabu play. They sign and laugh, as they become friends. “Oh what fun!” they say. The sequel to Mpumi’s Magic Beads is here! The story follows the adventure that…
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I’m a published Social Anthropologist
Connected Lives: Families, Households and Care in South Africa edited by Professors Nolwazi Mkhwanazi and Lenore Manderson is finally here. This means that I am officially a published Anthropologist – let me go update my CV! It seems like a lifetime ago when I was navigating the public health section of my university’s medical campus…
Lebohang Masango 
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