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Bongani Kona

Bongani Kona is a writer and editor of Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying (2021). He works in the department of history at the University of the Western Cape and is a member of the curatorial team at the Archive of Forgetfulness project.

Age of Iron

January 11, 2022
What led the adversaries in apartheid South Africa to seek a negotiated settlement instead of a fight to the finish?
A white flower floats on a stylized dark green pool of water.

The Descendants

An old black-and-white portrait of him hung in our living room. His slanted signature marked the books on our shelves. And once a month, cousin T. and I walked my grandmother, Agnes, to the post office to collect his pension. Until the checks stopped coming in the late ...