Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala

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Notes

1 M. Tlali, Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom, edited and with an introduction by P. Dineo Gqola (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2021); F. Meer, Fatima Meer: A Free Mind, edited and with an introduction by S. Hassim (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2019); L. Ngcobo, Lauretta Ngcobo: Writing as the Practice of Freedom, edited by B. Boswell (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2022); W. Maathai, Wangari Maathai’s Registers of Freedom, edited and with an introduction by Grace A. Musila (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2020).

2 Key examples are Ellen Kuzwayo’s Call Me Woman (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1985) and Phyllis Ntantala’s A Life’s Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala (Berkeley: University of California Press).

3 N. Mngomezulu, ‘S7E2: Remembering Regina Gelana Twala’, produced by PEN South Africa, in The Empty Chair Podcast: A Transatlantic Conversation, 9 March 2023, 68 min, https://pensouthafrica.co.za/s7e2-remembering-regina-gelana-twala/, accessed 31 July 2023.

4 Library of Congress, ‘Prof. Joel Cabrita, Stanford University, in conversation with Dr. Athambile Masola, University of Cape Town’, produced by Library of Congress, Writing African Women Back into History, 21 March 2023, Video, 47:54 min, https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10745/, accessed 31 July 2023.

5 J. Cabrita, ‘Regina Twala Was a Towering Intellectual and Activist in Eswatini – but She Was Erased from History’, The Conversation, 18 January 2023, https://theconversation.com/regina-twala-was-a-towering-intellectual-and-activist-in-eswatini-but-she-was-erased-from-history-197540, accessed 31 July 2023.