Portrait of a Girl at the Border Wall

All the women in my life are hungry I have written this one hundred times I do not know how else to tell it how to write the girl by the roadside the bruised peach the narrow collar the night full of birds Her body is a long river that cuts through every room see…

Sarah Lubala

Sarah Lubala is a Congolese-born, South Africa-based writer. Her family fled the Democratic Republic of Congo two decades ago amidst political unrest. They relocated first to South Africa, then the Ivory Coast, before returning to South Africa and settling in Johannesburg. She has been twice shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Award, and once for The…