“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
Chimurenga Chronic (April 2016)
In the fall of 2015, universities across South Africa were engulfed by fires ignited by students’ discontent with the racial discrimination and colonialism that still defines the country’s institutes of higher education. The protests broadcast on televisions around the world were neither without precedent nor without parallel.
With contributions from Pedro Monaville, Yemisi Aribisala, Frank B. Wilderson III, Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Florence Madenga, Kwanele Sosibo, Joshua Craze, Lindokuhle Nkosi, Lidudumalingani Mqombothi, Moses Marz, Stacy Hardy and others.
