Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid

by Frank B. Wilderson, III

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In this mesmerizing political memoir, Frank Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate in South Africa during the furious last gasps of apartheid, where he taught at universities by day, and helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda and launch psychological warfare by night.

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A riveting memoir written in part in South Africa during apartheid and also part in the US. Wilderson really details the anti-apartheid movement, and how the radical (as always) ideas were sold out to mainstream economic viewpoints. He also writes about social issues in the US, being with white women and living as a black man in a racial society. (

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It seemed to me that Christopher's options and possibilities could change only when the actual framework changed: and the metamorphosis of the framework into which we had been born would almost certainly be so violent as to blow Christopher, and me, and all of us, away.
- James Baldwin,
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Rebaabetswe Wilderson
Nehanda Abiodun
Jalil Muntaqim

and in loving memory of
Merle Africa
Safiya Bukhari-Alston
Bushy Kelebonye

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In this mesmerizing political memoir, Frank Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate in South Africa during the furious last gasps of apartheid, where he taught at universities by day, and helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda and launch psychological warfare by night.

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