“Three generations of white South African men were bound together at that table. Vermuelen was the first generation. He defined Africa, made it safe for Basson to defile. I was the last generation, the last to grow up in segregated neighborhoods. Between us was the silent photograph of Wouter Basson. Like a distant father, Basson was absent at the dining table.” – Henk Rossouw (Hole in the White ‘Hood). Also Mahmood Mamdani on Bantu Education at UCT, Gael Reagon on sisterhood, Binyavanga Wainaina on dis-covering Kenya, Gaston Zossou on African intellectuals and more…
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Strange Fruit by Lewis Allen
A Funeral For... by Zara Julius in collaboration with Zoé Samudzi (Zara Julius, 2025)
A Funeral For… is a hand-bound art book that explores the entanglements of death-in-life, land, and the necrographies of both imperial violence and indigenous memory through the respective practices of each contributor. The essays and interviews in the book are interspersed with archival images for further context.
Edited by Zara Julius, with contributions of Meghan Ho-Tong, Zara Julius, Abdud-Daiyaan Petersen and Zoé Samudzi.