“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
Kemang Wa Lehulere (Stevenson, 2015)
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Kemang Wa Lehulere's first comprehensive monograph traces his work from 2005 to 2015. Images of Wa Lehulere's drawings, performances, videos and installations are interspersed with various forms of texts by the artist, including poetry and scripts for performance, as well as a series of intimate letters between Wa Lehulere and a friend, curator/writer Khwezi Gule, and an interview conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Book published to coincide with the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2015.