IWant To Go Home Forever

Thirteen True Stories About Xenophobia And Belonging In Johannesburg. generations Of People From Across Africa, Europe And Asia Have Turned Metal From The Depths Of The Earth Into Africa?s Wealthiest, Most Dynamic And Most Diverse Urban Centre, AMegacity Where Postapartheid South Africa Is Being MadeYet For Newcomers As Well As Locals, The Golden Possibilities Of Gauteng Are Tinged With Dangers And DifficultiesChichi Is AHairdresser From Nigeria Who Left For South Africa After ALove Affair Went BadAzam Arrived From Pakistan With AModest Wad Of Cash And ADreamEstiphanos Trekked The Continent Escaping Political Persecution In Ethiopia, Only To Become The Target Of The May Xenophobic AttacksNombuyiselo Is The Mother Of yearold Simphiwe Mahori, Shot Dead In By ASomalian Shopkeeper In Snake Park, Sparking AFurther Wave Of Antiforeigner ViolenceAfter Fighting White Oppression For Decades, Ntombi Has Turned Her Anger Towards African Foreigners, Who, She Says Are Taking Jobs Away From South Africans And Fuelling CrimePapi, AFreedom Fighter And Activist In Katlehong, Now Dedicates His Life To Teaching The Youth In His Community That Tolerance Is The Only Way ForwardThese Are Some Of The Thirteen Stories That Make Up This CollectionThey Are The Stories Of South Africans, Some Gautengborn, Others From Neighbouring Provinces, Striving To Realise The Promises Of DemocracyThey Are Also The Stories Of Newcomers, From Neighbouring Countries And From As Far Afield As Pakistan And Rwanda, Seeking ASecure Future In Those Very PromisesThe Narratives, Collected By Researchers, Journalists And Writers, Reflect The Many Facets Of South Africa?s Postapartheid DecadesTaken Together They Give Voice To The Emotions And Relations Emanating From AParadoxical Place Of Outrage And Hope, Violence And SolidarityThey Speak Of Intersections Between People And Their Pasts, And Of How, In The Making Of Selves And The Other They Are Also Shaping South AfricaUnderlying These Accounts Is ANostalgia For An Imagined Future That Can Never Be RealisedThese Are Stories Of Forever Seeking APlace Called ?home?.
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