Directed by Jonathan Morgan and the Great African Spider Writers First Published in 1999 by Ink, an imprint of David Philip Publishers
“An important and wonderful experiment where narratives contest one another. It provides a forum for marginalised street narratives to surface in print.”
– Antjie Krog, author of Country of my Skull
“A strange and oddly touching journey into the underbelly of a great African city.”
– Rian Malan, author of My Traitor’s Heart
“Kusinwa kudedelwana – dancers must make way for one another – and so must ideas, figures of speech and poetic expressions! Jonathan has gone and done it. The result is a book that will never fail to find a home in our heart. Yebo! It’s time, amalunda, to dance centre-stage.”
– Gcina Mhlope, author of Have You Seen Zandile?
“A raw and powerful book about Johannesburg, a work unlike anything ever written…”
– Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times
“When he went searching for someone on whom to base a fictional homeless character, psychologist and aspiring novelist Jonathan Morgan got a lot more than he bargained for. The result is Finding Mr Madini… arguably the most important South African novel of the year.”
– Craig Canavan
“Finding Mr Madini is extraordinary. It is the flesh and the voice of a huge slice of humanity that has fallen through the cracks of a world we take for granted.”
– John Matshikiza, Mail & Guardian