“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
How to Measure: Lessons from Amos Tutuola by Erin Honeycutt (CUTT PRESS at Hopscotch reading room, 2023)
Amos Tutuola (1920, Abeokuta – 1997, Ibadan) is a Nigerian writer. His novels are based on Yoruba mythology. When Erin Honeycutt first came across Tutuola first novel The Palm-Wine Drinkard, she was convinced that the nature of his lists were not flippant. Perhaps it was more her relationship to numerical facts within a narrative that made her feel convinced that there was a mapping taking place within the story. But the mapping does not simply chart a landscape geographically, it also oscillates between the quantifiable and the completely unquantifiable. It is a map of the possible ways to measure a novel. Tutuola has markers for time, lengths of time, distances traveled, lists of measurements from beginning to end: the more specific, the more incalculable. Honeycutt took notes as she read the map.
A5, 14 pages, Risograph printing, Staple bound, Softcover.