O'Mandingo!: The Only Black at a Dinner PartyBased on the controversial but popular e-zine, this collection of opinion pieces and essays analyzes current topics facing postapartheid South Africa; including black economic empowerment, affirmative action, race, poverty, and affluence, while also touching on such lighter topics as sports, movies, love, and friendship. Black pride, strength, unity, and prosperity are central themes in these articles, creating a unique picture of the current South African black consciousness movement. |
Contents
Why OMANDINgO? | 9 |
Eric Miyeni | 10 |
Are white South Africans nice people? | 24 |
VARIATIONS ON ThE COLOuR BLACk | 37 |
The only black at a dinner party | 52 |
high maintenance | 68 |
Links | 83 |
Selfhate | 91 |
Business today | 161 |
Why do they forget where they come from? | 173 |
The new casinos | 180 |
Backward power games | 188 |
A LITTLE POLITICS PERhAPS? Why NOT? | 197 |
The coloured question | 205 |
To vote or not to vote What an interesting question | 211 |
The real opposition stands up when it matters | 218 |
ThE BERLIN SERIES | 101 |
have seen the new Johannesburg Its in East Berlin | 109 |
The blacks of Berlin | 115 |
like the germans | 121 |
A TOuCh OF JuSTICE | 131 |
Whats wrong with our police force? | 138 |
ThREE PLACES IN SOuTh AFRICA | 147 |
yeoville what a place | 153 |
The price of aid | 224 |
Savimbi is dead | 232 |
What twaddle | 240 |
Poor and generous in Marseilles | 248 |
A conversation in Marseilles | 254 |
MONuMENTS | 265 |
REQuIEM | 271 |
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