“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
Reading Ecologies: Transforming Publishing in Africa edits by Pacale Olobo, Michalis Pichler and Parfait Tabapsi (AFRIKADAA, MISS READ and Mosaïques, 2025)
Reading Ecologies: Transforming Publishing in Africa calls for insurgent publishing, rooted in the political, aesthetic and epistemic struggles of independent publishers from the African continent and diaspora.
MANAGING EDITORS: Esé Emmanuel and Nadine Siegert. CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Naddya Adhiambo Oluoch-Olunya, Jeffery Atuobi, TJ Benson, Mongo Beti, Ntone Edjabe, Katharina Fink, Joseph Fometeu, Wanjeri Gakuru, Maryam Kazeem, Ambroise Kom, Serge D. Kouam, Queenzela Mokoena, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Nyakallo Phamuli, Mario Pissara, Omphemetse Ramatlhatse, Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún, Ulrich Talla Wamba. FUNDED BY: Goethe-Institut Nigeria as part of the project “We Make Books”, managed and coordinated by Esé Emmanuel and Nadine Siegert. The workshop “Co-Publishing Art Books in Africa” was supported by Goethe-Institut Kamerun and Thekla Worch-Ambara.