“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
I Love You Too by Kemang Wa Lehulere (Manchester International Festival, 2021)
"Tasked with writing love letters, a number of established writers sat with over 100 Manchester residents. They engaged in a dialogue that inspired the writing of letters which the participants could take home. These love letters were not necessarily required to be written to a person, but were open-ended towards objects, places and memories ... the aspiration is to paint a social portrait through prose and poetic form by way of public declarations of intimacy." Kemang Wa Lehulere.