
Fictions of freedom
K. Sello Duiker’s ‘The Quiet Violence of Dreams’ still haunts Cape Town, a city whose beauty masks its brutal exclusions. Two decades later, in the shadow of Amazon’s new development, its truths are more urgent than ever.
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Kim M Reynolds is an arts and politics writer, educator, and maker. She lives in Cape Town, South Africa.
K. Sello Duiker’s ‘The Quiet Violence of Dreams’ still haunts Cape Town, a city whose beauty masks its brutal exclusions. Two decades later, in the shadow of Amazon’s new development, its truths are more urgent than ever.
While many diasporans speculate romantically about the people we were or could have been, is that speculation mutual?
Stand-up comedy, especially black stand-up, and the political in South Africa.