“To be young, gifted and black, Oh what a lovely precious dream” Nina was wrong; it’s a terrible, terrible nightmare! Oh what a burden it is, to be young What curse it is to be gifted And what a terrible nightmare it is to be black (And for some) what absolute torture it is to…
Category: Non-Fiction
Japapa: A Revolutionary Childhood
The phrase ‘young revolutionaries’ has never been so unadulterated before. I mean, how old were we? Ten? Yip, samuele daar! Four lil ghetto kids, revolutionary before even hearing the word. The oldest is Jasta (henceforth referred to as Jastafari) or Masti as we used to call him ka Sejapapa. Being older and bigger (way bigger,…