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Grace Khunou, Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa

Power, pleasure and patriarchy: why The Polygamist on Netflix is captivating viewers

The Polygamist is a Netflix series that has soared up the streaming platform’s charts and triggered a global conversation about men who cheat in relationships.

It tracks the fatal ruptures in what seems like a successful upper class family, the Gomoras. Although the story plays out in South Africa, the series is adapted from Zimbabwean author Sue Nyathi’s self-published novella.

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