A shrewd yet soulful novel, Paperless is set in Oxford and revolves around three groups in the university town: the African students who entered the country legally on student visas, the blue-collar South African workers who overstayed their visitor visas and are illegal, and black Britons who are an enigma to the Africans. As the chief protagonist Luzuko Goba navigates these worlds, his relationship with his former political exile father – who has just died – is revealed. This is a book about migrants, legal and illegal, out of time, on the wrong side of the UK’s department of immigration. They are paperless.
CONTRIBUTORS: Buntu Siwisa
EAN: 9781431434015
COUNTRY: South Africa
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WEIGHT: 500 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
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WIDTH: 155 cm
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A senior researcher at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) at Wits University, Buntu Siwisa’s academic expertise areas are in peace and security in Africa, border security management and inequalities, the economic history of inequalities in South Africa, and biography writing. His most recent publication, Rugby, Resistance and Politics: How Dan Qeqe Helped Shape the History of South Africa was published in 2022 by Jacana Media. Paperless is his debut novel and was shortlisted for the Zozz James Currey Prize for African Literature.
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