“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
HAUNTINGS: An Anthology of Plays is the fourth book from diartskonageng and first offering from The Writers’ Lab. It features four women playwrights; Khutjo Green, Olivia Fischer, Jade Beeby and Refiloe Lepere. The anthology is a result of the wonderful work being done by The Writers’ Lab; a collective based in Tshwane and founded on the importance of writing ourselves into our stories, in collaboration with diartskonageng, a black owned and managed publishing company with complementary objectives.