“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
Home Is Where the Mic Is (Botsotso, 2015)
Over recent years South Africa’s poetry scene has seen a rebirth of poetry with young writers redefining the art form to better suit their lived experiences.
This anthology, Home Is Where the Mic Is, is the first collection of contemporary youth poetry that manages to fully capture the spirit of spoken word in a country as diverse and ever changing as this.