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Black Youth Are Not 'Born Free' in Post-Apartheid South Africa

16 Jul 2014

Rhodes University student, Malaika wa Azania, has published her first book, Memoirs of a Born Free. In this candid interview with Samantha Moolman of Creamer Media, she talks about being young and black in post-apartheid South Africa.

According to 22-year-old wa Azania, black youth are not born free in post-apartheid South Africa. The term "born free" is a false thesis because "the constructs that defined apartheid South Africa continue to define post-apartheid South Africa…If constructs of apartheid South Africa continue post-1994, then the logic dictates that people born after '94 become products of an un-free society,” she contends.

Watch part two of this interview here.

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