Country of my skull
Antjie Krog (Author)
For more than two years Antjie Krog worked in acute engagement with the many voices that arose in and around South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. From the legislative genesis of the Commission, through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, and the activities of apartheid's operatives, the appearance of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former President PW Botha's courthouse press conference, the Commission's meeting with the media in Robben Island early in 1998 - this award-winning poet leads us on an extraordinary odyssey. "Country of my skull" captures the complexity of the Truth Commission's work in a uniquely personal narrative which is harrowing, illuminating and provocative
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Before the Commission. They never wept, the men of my race
None more parted than us. First hearings. Bereaved and dumb, the high southern air succumbs
The narrative of betrayal has to be reinvented every time
The sound of the second narrative
The wet bag and other phantoms
Two women: let us hear it in another language
Guilt is on the move with all her mantles. Politics. The political page curls over itself
Reconciliation: the lesser of two evils
Amnesty: in transit with the ghosts
The political tongue at anchor. Reactions. Blood rains in every latitude
Letters on the acoustics of scars
It gets to all of us
from Tutu to Mamasela
Truth is a women
Then burst the mighty heart. Unwinding. The shepherd and the landscape of my bones
A tragedy of errors
Mother faces the nation
Beloved country of grief and grace
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