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We Are Not of This World

Mulanga Mbedzi

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English
Mulanga Mbedzi
27 April 2026
Lisa, an artist deeply moved by the housing crisis in her city, is desperate to make meaningful art while also under the pressure to make a living. Using visual art as her medium, she documents abandoned buildings and people displaced by policy and profit. But when heartbreak dismantles the emotional scaffolding she built around love, she is forced inward, confronting the hollow spaces she has long avoided.

Khanya was groomed to inherit his family's empire, a life carefully mapped out by a father invested in power and preservation. All Khanya knows about being a man is that he must protect his family's legacy. But as the fractures in Johannesburg widen, and as land, housing, and dignity become battlegrounds, Lisa forces him to confront how deeply implicated he is in a system he has never questioned.

Together, Lisa and Khanya are pulled into the complexities of identity and purpose, all while navigating the intricate, uncertain path of falling in love.
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Imprint:   Mulanga Mbedzi
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   263g
ISBN:   9798235202528
Pages:   252
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Mulanga Mbedzi is a writer and visual artist from Johannesburg whose work sits at the intersection of art and social advocacy. With a background in law and politics, she has long been drawn to issues of justice, but found her voice most powerfully through creative expression. Her art and writing explore urban decay, the housing crisis, and the systemic neglect of society's most vulnerable. Through poetic storytelling and visual form, she examines themes of identity, compassion, and survival in an increasingly capitalist world.

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