“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 Resolutionairies by Ayi Kwei Armah (PER ANKH, 2013)
The Story: As a professional interpreter, Nefert works at conferences where African's rulers meet not to solve the continent's problems, but to resolve to beg for solutions from past and present masters. She knows that under foreign occupation, Africa's abundant resources were pillaged in a raw export economy that pauperized Africans to enrich invaders. Nefert endures her depression in loneliness until she gets drawn into a circle of highly skilled friends looking, like her, for a key to African future.