“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 (December 2013)
This edition of the Chronic offers forays into interlaced subjects of power, resistance, protest, mobilisation, mobility and belonging. Marked by an urgency to unsettle divides between opportunism and opportunity, life and liberation, here and there, and then and now-now, the newspaper acts as a platform from which to engage the practices, dilemmas and possibilities of different world.
Contributors include Kwanele Sosibo, Rustum Kozain, Boniface Mwangi, Paula Akugizibwe, Kangsen Wakai, Kodwo Eshun, Jihan El-Tahri, Mohannad Ghawanmeh, Youssef Rakha, Louis Chude-Sokei, Yemisi Ogbe, Florence Madenga, Ronald Suresh Roberts, Bongani Kona, Dudumalingani Mqombothi and Tseliso Monaheng.
