Viewing the continent from its tip

by Grace Musila and Meg Samuelson, The Cape Argus

Questions about how we engage, conceive of and receive Africa in the Cape – and of how the Cape positions itself in Africa – are vigorously argued over across the peninsula with the regularity and ferocity of the south-easterly winds. 

The Cape must embrace its rich mix

by Achille Mbembe, Meg Samuelson, Sarah Nuttall and Grace Musila, The Cape Times, 7 June 2011

The Western Cape is one of the most creolised regions of South Africa.

A fulcrum between the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, it has never ceased to be a site where North-South, East-West axes and the land mass of the African interior collided and intersected, including during the long years of white supremacy and its wild dreams of racial separatism.