“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
Music by Sufi Inayat Khan (CUTT PRESS at Hopscotch reading room, 2022)
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927) was an exemplar of Universal Sufism and founder of the "Sufi Order in the West" in 1914 in London. Later, in 1923, the Sufi Order of the London period was dissolved into a new organization called the "International Sufi Movement". He initially came to the West as a representative of classical Indian music, having received the title Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad but soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice. "Music" is a compilation of lectures given by Hazrat Inayat Khan. It conveys an insight into the deep knowledge of Indian mysticism and music in a very simple language. His teachings on sound present a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life; science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music. Riso-printed edition of 50 by Hopscotch, Berlin (2022) of the 3rd printing by the Sufi Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi (1973).