“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
KMT: in the house of life by Ayi Kwei Armah (PER ANKH, 2002)
The Narrative: Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah's seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life's flow. Loving companions–an Egyptologist and two traditionalists–show her secret hieroglyphic texts left by Migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago.