“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 Text: Of Africa's oldest ways of life and death, there are two. One, the royal road, irresistibly attractive to power-addicts, is lined with hierarchies, priests, armies and bureaucracies. It gave Plato his liberal model of the slave-owning aristocracy, the template for imperial, colonial and apartheid systems of social inequality.