Mokokoma Mokhonoana: 6 books

Have you ever thanked someone for helping you—or for saying something useful or nice to or about you? If so, you shouldn’t have. With this funny yet extremely thought-provoking essay, Mokokoma Mokhonoana scrutinizes the principle and the practice of selflessness, which is, as we all know, also...

Using his wit, his rare ability to see through the lies that we sane human beings tell each other in order to hide our selfishness, and his courage to call a spade a spade, which is without a doubt rarely found in someone who makes a living from speaking or writing, Mokokoma Mokhonoana, author of...

What makes you, you? Is it your mother tongue? Is it your country of birth? Is it your ethnicity? Is it your bank balance? Or could it be who or what you call God? Mokokoma takes the reader through a mental tour. An exploration of social constructs that have divided the human race, i.e., language,...

Do not allow your love for or hatred of America be the only reason you read or do not read this book, because it has absolutely nothing to do with or say about the U.S.! As one reader of the book has remarked, “As he explores various subjects, Mokhonoana questions and challenges the status...

With this funny yet thought-provoking essay, Mokokoma explores the so-called self-abuse, an activity that has divided most sane human beings into two camps: the pro- and the anti-masturbation. As he usually does with such topics, he explores the aforementioned division without taking sides....

“12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.” “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.” “A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.” “It’s...