It seems in our common quest for belonging, there is also the compulsion to ostracise and dehumanise others. Much of Nyamnjoh earlier research outputs interrogate this unfortunate dynamic. Similar traits can be discerned in the development of global capitalism.

The aim of the collection is to create a pedagogical device that foregrounds the sonic, aesthetic, epistemic and performative strategies of creating emancipatory thinking, feeling, imagining and being, that will contribute to critically expanding the decolonial black archive.

These themes are an invitation to reflect on our understanding of the feminine form in shaping our relationships and even career choices. The book is laced with overt erotic writings along with the narrator’s preoccupations of a post-apocalypse world without women.

This book is for readers who are interested in the vogue debates on constitutionalism which have now taken center stage, since the publication of the opportunistic opinion piece on the constitution by Lindiwe Sisulu and the recent claims that the judiciary is corrupt.

"Dodging the Civil War Bullet" by Sello Lediga is an impeccable narrative that reads like a documentary flashback. It is suffused with accurate dates, names, and a robust sense of the socio-political atmosphere from the colonial-apartheid era of the 1600s until the 1990s.

This fugitive nature of Black life under a brutally racist regime necessitated, even for the most law-abiding Black subject, a certain flexibility and alertness without which mere survival would be severely compromised.

White supremacy does not need apartheid. This is why white supremacy has outlived the regime of apartheid under liberal constitutional democracy in the current so-called new South Africa.

The book posits that land reform must follow the rule of law thus reinforces the hegemony of the final constitution and white settler constitutionalism. Tembeka (2021:7) reasons that “my argument is that it is time to take the Constitution off the shelf.