Join us for a poetry reading by Uhuru Phalafala on 17 June at 17:30 at USquare!
Uhuru Phalafala is a writer, researcher, archivist, and scholar with interests in critical race studies, indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies, social movements, and jazz. She is a senior lecturer in literary studies at Stellenbosch University and is the author of Mine Mine Mine, The Collected Poetry of Keorapetse Kgositsile, 1969-2018, and Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility. She is currently working on a book project on black ecological practices.
In Brussels, Uhuru Phalafala will read excerpts from Mine Mine Mine, a book that takes us deep into the history and legacy of South African mining and its multifaceted impact on the body of the land as much as the bodies of humans involved in, and subjected to, this exploitative practice. With her method of ‘unburying’, this work unearths the racialized and gendered consequences of extractive violence, drawing on familial and collective archives and reinserting the archive of the body in the wider repositories of cultural memory.
