"A wedding in December can only lead to chaos" Natasha Makamba on Ka Mashabe.
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In this episode of the Love in Detty December series, Modupe chats with Natasha Makamba, contributing author to Ponmo Is a Bird That Has No Place in a Cultured Culinary Sky and Other Stories and writer of the story Ka Mashabe. Natasha shares the Inspiration for her characters, the love that exists among family and the expectations young women in African households are held to when it comes to marriage, the type of man that is a “good” man. Together they discuss her process, what shaped Ka Mashabe, and the narrative choice of a December love story taking place during a Zambian wedding.
Stay tuned every Wednesday and Saturday at 12PM as Modupe continues her interviews with authors featured in Volume Three of Love in Detty December Anthology "Ponmo Is A Bird That Has No Place In A Cultured Culinary Sky" you can get your own copy HERE
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