English arrives loaded, carrying histories that were never meant to hold black life without distortion. Many artists step away from it for that reason.
Vuyelwa Maluleke does something else entirely. She stays. She insists. She writes into it, against it, through it until it begins to carry the texture of her world.
Maluleke is an award-winning writer, performer and lecturer, recently nominated for Best Performance in a Fringe production at the 2026 Naledi Theatre Awards.
