Begging to Be Black

Antjie Krog

mar 2012 · Penguin Random House South Africa

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In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog’s stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely in scope, both in time - reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe - and in space - as we follow Krog’s experiences as a research fellow in Berlin, far from the Africa that produced her.
Begging to Be Black is a book of journeys - moral, historical, philosophical and geographical. These form strands that Krog interweaves and sets in conversation with each other, as she explores questions of change and becoming, coherency and connectedness, before drawing them closer together as the book approaches its powerful end.
Experimental and courageous, Begging to Be Black is a welcome addition to Krog’s own oeuvre and to South African literary non-fiction.

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Antjie Krog has published many volumes of poetry, three of them collections of children’s verse: Mankepank en ander monsters, Voëls van anderste vere and Fynbos Fairies. She has been awarded the Hertzog Prize, and is the author of the acclaimed Country of My Skull, which won the Alan Paton and the Olive Schreiner Award. She lives in Cape Town.