“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
WAITHOOD magazine
Waithood Magazine is a periodical that foregrounds emerging contemporary African artists and fugitive epistemologies to comprehend the complexities of the human experience through a maroonage perspective. The publication engages with questions of Black spatial thinking, emerging at the intersection of youth agency, urban infrastructure and contemporary arts. The project uses publishing and exhibition making as means of investigation, and experiments with new methodologies for understanding and intervening in the art world, oriented by the desire of imagining and rendering liberated futures for Black societies and territories.
