“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
The Feel Trio by Fred Moten (CUTT PRESS at Hopscotch reading room, 2025)
Hopscotch’s copy of ‘The Feel Trio’ by Fred Moten (Letter Machine Editions, 2014) was heavily notated by the previous owner. Drawings, personal thoughts and feelings, diagrams, and other scribbles fill the margins of our copy which we have reprinted as is in the spirit of Moten’s eclectic mixture of resources in the book: “contemporary as well as historical, steeped in jazz and black history, representing a cultural lexicon of the utmost accomplished chops filled with slang, humor, and critical acumen with events and cultural collateral” in the shared memory of the page.