The Africa I know is being pulled in different directions. Its ‘choices’ are never really choices. They’re what happens when you are torn between economic development and traditional small-scale farming, or what happens when you are stuck in the middle of Europe and China battling over your land.
Much of Africa is stuck – between old and new; between tourism and sacred sites; between the values of the West and its own time-honoured practices.
This position – and the tension it creates – was starkly apparent on my recent trip to the Limpopo region of South Africa. Limpopo is home to the Venda ...
There are approximately 218 more words in this article.
To read the rest of this article, please buy this issue, or join the Resurgence Trust. As a member you will receive access to the complete archive of magazines from May 1966.
If you are already a member, please Sign in
