Lockdown Extended contributors pull together
b'Some of the Lockdown Extended contributors pulled together virtually to bring you a "book launch"! We compiled their WhatsApp voicenotes into this podcast, where you\'ll get to hear readings from various authors, the inspiration behind their contributions and much more.\\n\\nGet your copy of Lockdown Extended here:\\no Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087M3RCS8/\\no Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/za/en/ebook/lockdown-extended\\no Snapplify: https://shop.snapplify.com/product/lockdown-extended\\n\\nSentenced to Lockdown, regarded as "non-essential", 30 South African writers get together in a virtual Corona Collective, to pen Lockdown Extended, trying to make sense of a world, held hostage by a virus. Powerfully visceral, this gem includes a diverse list of South Africa\'s most celebrated writers, brilliantly capturing the effects of a global pandemic.\\n\\nThere\'s Sisonke Msimang (Always Another Country), Fred Khumalo (Bitches Brew) and Pumla Dineo Gqola (Rape A South African Nightmare). The comic genius of Ben Trovato and Everyday Zulu Melusi Tshabalala, shine while poet Lebo Mashile, Khaya Dlanga, Dudu Busani-Dube, Rahla Xenopolous and Haji Mohamed Dawjee dig deep to find meaning in the time of Corona.\\n\\n"I jotted down a list of dream authors and decided to take my chances to see whether any one of them would agree to go on this mad venture with me," says Melinda Ferguson, "I hoped a few of them would say "yes". Turns out all 30 of them did."\\n\\nMusic: \'Focus\' by A.A. Aalto - https://freemusicarchive.org/music/A_A_Aalto/Connections/Focus'