“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
Heart's Hunger by Karen Press (Deep South, 2024)
Heart’s Hunger spans thirty years of Karen Press’s writing, including love poems, historical, political poems, lyrics, satires and poems of place.
Karen Press was born in Cape Town in 1956, where she lives and works as a freelance editor and writer. She has published ten collections of poems, including The Little Museum of Working Life (2004), The Canary’s Songbook (2005), Slowly, As If (2012) and The Loving and Loveable City (May Not Yet Be Here): An Atlas of the Cape Peninsula (2023). In 1987 she co-founded the publishing collective Buchu Books. In 2015 she received the Literary Translators Award for the translation into English of Mede-wete and Synapse by Antjie Krog.