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Pumflet 'Black Peace' (Wolff Architects, 2025)

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Pumflet 'Black Peace' (Wolff Architects, 2025)

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'black peace' is meditation on home as both a space of belonging and arrest. In the context of Southern Africa, political figures like Winnie Madikezela-Mandela and Robert Sobukwe worked and organised from home under conditions of state violence: house arrest, exile and confinement.

Others like Sol Plaatje and Bessie Head found in their homes a sense freedom. Plaatjie, as a token of deep appreciation for a lifetime of depicting and protesting the Native Land Act of 1913, received his home as a gift from his friends on his 50th birthday. Head, constructed her home from the proceeds of her first novel When Rainclouds Gather, this, after years of enduring enforced exile from South Africa and a continued refugee status in Botswana, the location of her house.

This publication honours theirs and others such as Ellen Kuzwayo's work and their domestic space.

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