Review: Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994, editors by Derilene (Dee) Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye Available to Purchase

Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994, edited by Derilene Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and Abebe Zegeye, is a testimony to the survival and resilience of South African people. Contained in its pages are essays that grapple with these themes through a diversity of mediums of creative expression, including art, film, protest, academic research, and remembrance. The editors have categorized the essays into analyses of visual art and identity, healing, unsettling laughter, and critiques of white writing. The volume concludes with a postscript composed of reflections from undergraduate students at the University of California, Irvine, serving as an imagined posthumous conversation with Winnie Mandela about her activism and incarceration.

The most potent orientation to Sasinda Futhi Siselapha may be the simple yet multivalent meanings of its title. Elaborated by Zethu Cakata in the first pages, “Sasinda,” from Nguni, can be translated...