Description: I Want to Go Home Forever : Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis, Paperback by Landau, Loren B. (EDT); Pampalone, Tanya (EDT), ISBN 1776142217, ISBN-13 9781776142217, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Generations of people from across Africa, Europe and Asia have turned metal from the depths of the earth into Africa's wealthiest, most dynamic and most diverse urban centre, a mega-city where post-apartheid South Africa is being made. Yet for newcomers as well as locals, the golden possibilities of Gauteng are tinged with dangers and is a hairdresser from Nigeria who left for South Africa after a love affair went bad. Azam arrived from Pakistan with a modest wad of cash and a dream. Estiphanos trekked the continent escaping political persecution in Ethiopia, only to become thetarget of the May 2008 xenophobic is the mother of 14-year-old Simphiwe Mahori, shot dead in 2015 by a Somalian shopkeeper in Snake Park, sparking a further wave of anti-foreigner violence. After fighting white oppression for decades, Ntombi has turned her anger towards African foreigners, who, she says are taking jobs away from South Africans and fuelling crime. Papi, a freedom fighter and activist in Katlehong, now dedicates his life to teaching the youth in his community that tolerance is the only way are some of the thirteen stories that make up this collection. They are the stories of South Africans, some Gauteng-born, others from neighbouring provinces, striving to realise the promises of democracy. They are also the stories of newcomers from neighbouring countries and from as far afi eld as Pakistan and Rwanda, seeking a secure future in those very narratives, collected by researchers, journalists and writers, refl ect the many facets of South Africa's post-apartheid decades. Taken together they give voice to the emotions and relations emanating from a paradoxical place of outrage and hope, violence and solidarity. They speak of intersections between people and their pasts, and of how, in the making of selves and the other they are also shaping South Africa. Underlying these accounts is a nostalgia for an imagined future that can never be realised. These are stories of forever seeking a place called 'home'.
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Book Title: I Want to Go Home Forever : Stories of Becoming and Belonging in
Number of Pages: 260 Pages
Publication Name: I Want to Go Home Forever : Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa's Great Metropolis
Language: English
Publisher: Wit's University Press
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Emigration & Immigration, Africa / General, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Tanya Pampalone
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
