by Eve Fairbanks
@evefairbanks
Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction
A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.
Dipuo grew up on the south side of a mine dump that segregated Johannesburg’s black townships from the white-only city. Some nights, she hiked to the top. To a South African teenager in the 1980s—even an anti-apartheid activist like Dipuo—the divide that separated her from the glittering lights on the other side appeared eternal. But in 1994, the world’s last explicit racial segregationist regime collapsed to make way for something unprecedented.
Interview with the Author
The Realignment
269 | Season Finale: Eve Fairbanks on What South Africa’s Reckoning Means for the U.S.
7/22/22 65 min
NPR’s Book of the Day
‘The Inheritors’ explores the lasting effects of Apartheid in South Africa
8/1/22 7 min
The Gist
Confronting South Africa’s Racist-Created Trauma
9/1/22 37 min
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