“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
La sphère de Planck by Lionel Manga ( Ròt-Bò-Krik , 2022)
That evening in Kribi, a Cameroonian seaside resort, a high dignitary of the regime inaugurated his new villa.
The story of the event is written like a fractal: a multiplicity of characters meet there and tell each other. In the middle of them, A55, freshly returned to the country after thirty years spent in France. sent on an economic analysis mission, observes the political and social decline of contemporary Cameroon.
Through streams of thoughts from the various protagonists, it is the very history of the country since independence that emerges. An immense and complex world in reduction, which does not hold any more but by words, resulting from a library as scientific as poetic.