Ishtiyaq Shukri

‘The experience of grief is as unique to each of us as our fingerprints’ – Our Ghosts Were Once People, a new book edited by Bongani Kona

Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying edited by Bongani Kona is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.

Author Ishtiyaq Shukri on being a survivor of sexual abuse in South Africa’s Church of England: ‘Why I find Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s statements regarding Oxfam painful and hypocritical’

Update, July 2021: Shukri has written a longer piece on this subject, recently published in Africa is a Country. “My first abuser …