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It’s heartbreaking to be relegated to fantasy and a myth when something is real for you

— Nkhensani Mkhari

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Cultural resurgence must first grapple with heritage and resistance

When I write, I’m casting ideas into the world, connecting my family history and broader South African history to pre-colonial philosophies.

There's an essence where we should draw from instead of those external conditions that have been imposed on us.

What makes human beings special is that as creatures we have imagination. My question is how we do imagine new epistemologies and modes of reality in the world?

That is the war we’re fighting. Who gets to create knowledge? What knowledge is accepted?

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