A book that gives a voice to the voiceless (animals), The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past by Prof Sandra Swart bags a Sunday Times Literary Awards longlisting!

ʼn Boek wat namens die diere praat, The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past, deur prof Sandra Swart is op die langlys van die Sunday Times se letterkunde-toekennings!

There is an African proverb, “Until the lion has a historian of his own, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” Prof Swart took up the challenge of writing a new kind of history, to show how to become the lion’s historian. This significant and unique...