I've enjoyed how it appeals to me as a man and re-affirms my role in society and how to co-exist in a complex world. But as a male, I felt empowered by the book. When some of my colleagues saw the book, they thought here is another book about male bashing. I loved prof's narration of her experience as a women in academia. From a secure Centurion estate in one case to being a cop in another, and being taken by men who know them. These include essays on ‘Disappearing Women’, where Gqola spends time exploring what it means to live in a country where women can simply disappear. Host Eusebius McKaiser says 'Reflecting Rogue' is Gqola's most personal book to date which delivers twenty essays of 'deliciously incisive brain food', all extremely accessible to a general critical readership, without sacrificing intellectual rigour. She adds that she felt, if she was ever going to write another book, she had to do it now. Gqola explains that she was humbled by how well received her previous book, Rape: A South African Nightmare was. Gqola is no stranger to the literary scene as she's written three other works.
Reflecting Rogue (Inside the mind of a feminist) is the much anticipated and brilliant collection of experimental autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and South African culture by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. Her short stories have been published in literary journals and anthologies on three continents.'Reflecting Rogue' is the much-anticipated collection of autobiographical essays on power, pleasure and SA culture by Prof Gqola. She has written op-eds, features and columns for New Frame, City Press, Mail and Guardian, Drum (UK), Chimurenga, Wordsetc, The Africa Report and BBC Focus on Africa magazine. She sits on various academic journal boards, including African Identities, Feminist Africa, English Academy Review and Women's Studies International. Her research and teaching fields include postcolonial theory, feminist theory and literature, Black Consciousness literature, gender discourse in post-apartheid South Africa and slave memory in the African world. Gqola holds Master's degrees from the Universities of Cape Town (RSA) and University of Warwick (UK) and a DPhil in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Munich (Germany). She is author What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2010), A renegade called Simphiwe (2013) Rape: A South African Nightmare (2015), which won the 2016 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, and Reflecting Rogue: Inside the mind of a feminist (2017).
Pumla Dineo Gqola is a feminist author and Research Professor at the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa.
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