“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
If You Want to Know Me by student works from Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Lovedale Press, 1999)
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This remarkable book is a poetry, fiction, drama and artwork by the students of SOMAFCO, a school run by the ANC for exiles from the fascist apartheid government of in South Africa. Their voices offer a document of Apartheid from the perspective of the young .