Among the countries where I’ve traveled frequently (on a very long flight) is South Africa, a unique country on the continent. Intertwined with its socioeconomic disparities, South Africa is also a land marked with extreme racial divisions and frictions. To learn more about these contrasts, Global Atlanta readers would do well to pick up “The Promise,” a Booker Prize-winning novel by South African author Damon Galgut. I was pleased to see recognition for this great author from South Africa, the third from the country to take home this prestigious prize, especially given that the recognition comes for his approach to the sensitive topic of race relations in South Africa. This dramatic novel tells the tale of a white South African family toward the end of the apartheid era and their interactions with their Black South African neighbors over several generations.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 31, 2021 14:55 UTC