Get Me Started

by Sipho Hlongwane

In Get Me Started self-taught wordsmith, award-winning journalist and roisterous raconteur Sipho Hlongwane plays off the phrase ‘Don’t get me started’ to REALLY challenge youngsters to get themselves riled up over politics, cars, Twitter, racial slurs, religion and people who must go away, all in the name of a better South Africa.

91 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 12, 2013

Reviews

[Clare Grové · Rating 4 out of 5]

These homegrown rants are enjoyable.

I own, by the default of having picked up my edition from The Little Library at Emmarentia, a signed copy of this pocket book. But seeing that I am the sole reviewer of this title on GoodReads, I doubt it will be worth much.

Come on, people. It's pithy. It offers view points that are considered and well-penned - even if I don't agree with all of them.

[Arif Fatoni · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has nothing to do with Britain and the British colonization of Africa. But the author of this book made me as a reader connect how Queen Elizabeth's death did not become a year of world mourning; there are those who still remember Britain as the number WAHID colonizer in the world, thus creating courage that cannot be prevented from starting. The group of writings in this book is not only interesting, but also provokes courage--with passionate diction based on the logic of anti-colonialization. Very interesting.