The permanent exhibitions in the museum depict the literary representation of the South African landscape from early colonial times to the present day. Displays of original manuscripts, rare books, authors’ notebooks and letters are complemented by audio and video components and interactive touch screens.
Amazwi displays permanent exhibition at its head quarters and its two satellite, the Schreiner House and the Eastern Star. Visit the museum and its satellites to experience South African literary heritage by literary legends such as Olive Schreiner, Sol Plaatje, SEK Mqhayi, Can Themba to diverse award winning and contemporary writers.
The exhibition tells the story of South Africa through the lens of the country’s literature, from the earliest writing of the colonial period.
The Nobel laureate JM Coetzee is a major figure in world literature. He is also the most translated, and most written about, of all writers in South Africa’s literary history.
The exhibition was produced to celebrate the centenary of the birth in 2019 of this prolific writer, teacher and journalist.
Jabavu grew up in the family home in Middledrift and on the Fort Hare University campus in Alice.
The subject of the exhibition, Tatamkhulu Afrika, was a celebrated poet and novelist during the 1990s. He was a person of multiple identities who lived a complex…
‘Humanature’ explores the ways in which South African literature expresses the complex relationship between humanity and nature
On the occasion of the award to her of an honorary doctorate by Rhodes University in 2022, Amazwi created a celebration of the life and work of Makhosazana Xaba.
Amazwi ibhiyozela ababhali ababhala ngazo zonke iilwimi zaseMzantsi Afrika. Lo mboniso ukhumbula ababhali besiXhosa bokuqala ababalulekileyo.
Remembering early isiXhosa writers in the year of the centenary of the death of John Knox Bokwe
The exhibition was produced in 2023 to celebrate the octogenary of the birth of this beloved storyteller and writer.
