Leo Africanus

The op-ed I wrote for the Guardian (UK) newspaper ‘s Comment is Free site on the wider context of the racist incident at the University of the Free State (captured on video), is now up at that paper’s website. To read the piece and the responses (including some off-color ones), go here. Blogger at Rootless Cosmopolitan reprinted it for more reactions on the piece. See also the responses there. [BTW, In the piece I mention accompanying my mother to rural farming district in the Small Karoo (in Afrikaans Klein Karoo) where she grew up. That's my mother in the image above in front of the house where she was born and spent her childhood; another family is renting it from the present landowner.]