Café De Move On Blues: In Search Of The New South Africa (Cafe De Move On Blues)

Author: Christopher Hope

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9781786490612
  • : Atlantic Books, Limited
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  • : January 2018
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  • : May-19
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781786490612
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Description

In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an "absurd, racist insanity." On a road trip 30 years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela, of a future when race and color would not count. He finds a country still in the grip of a ruling party intent only on caring for itself, to the exclusion of all others; a country where racial divides are deeper than ever. As the old imperial idols of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger are literally pulled from their pedestals in a mass yearning to destroy the past, Hope ponders the question: what next? Framed as a travelogue, this is a darkly comic, powerful and moving portrait of South Africa--an elegy to a living nation, which is still mad and absurd.