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"Christopher Hope grew up in a South Africa defined by violence and racism, and he would later become one of the most trenchant critics of the apartheid government. Thirty years after he left to live in self-imposed exile in London, Hope returns for a road trip, longing to discover what became of the country of his birth. Instead of the promise of Nelson Mandela's vision, however, he finds a nation not of equality and democracy, but one in the iron grip of a corrupted ruling party; a place where racial divides and tensions are deeper than ever. As the old imperial idols of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger are literally pulled from their pedestals in a collective yearning to destroy the past, and as any hope for the future is seemingly extinguished by political incompetence and malfeasance, Hope ponders the question : what next?"
In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela, o
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post
