IS IT COZ I’M BLACK

Follow-up to Ndumiso Ngcobo’s “Some Of My Best Friends Are White”.

Exclusive Books recently launched Is it Coz I’m Black, part of the independent publishing company Two Dog’s Homebru collection.

This much-anticipated follow-up to Ndumiso Ngcobo’s best-selling Some of My Best Friends Are White, sees the urban Zulu warrior returning to aim his streetwise eye at a fresh range of typically South African characters and social issues.

With chapters titles such as Jou Ma Se Passion Gap, Come Off It! You’d Kill For Julius Malema and The Afrikaner-Americans of the East Rand, his range of targets this time around includes various incantations of his coloured cousins, the mind-bogglingly awful South African driver, personal-security paranoia that sees us living in Amish-style complex enclosures, black men with condom troubles, the notion that our "xenophobia" is actually xenophobia, the ludicrous mammal-sacrificing ceremonies of traditional African weddings, general government incompetence and very scary angry-white-male syndrome.

Ndumiso Ngcobo was born in Mpumalanga Township in KwaZulu-Natal. Raised on a rural diet of conservative Catholicism and Zulu traditionalism, he managed to successfully incorporate writing and beer drinking into his daily corporate life. His first book, Some of My Best Friends Are White, was shortlisted for the Neilsen Bookseller’s Choice Award 2008. He has subsequently been widely published in various South African media, and has become one of the most widely read bloggers on the Mail & Guardian-hosted site www.thoughtleader.co.za

He was the first blogger to receive official media accreditation for an ANC conference (in Polokwane).

Is it Coz I’m Black is published by Two Dogs, ISBN 9781920137250