“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
This issue of Chimurenga uses comics as a thematic coherence in its insistence on art as interrogator and creator.
It features a rephrasing of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and new works by Yvan Alagbe, Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Nikhil Singh, Karen Boswall , Ho Che Anderson, Danijel Zezelj, Nicolene Louw, Orijit Sen , Lance Tooks, Sandra Brewster and many others.
