A Desire to Return to the Ruins looks at the contentious issues of land reform and restitution in post-apartheid South Africa.
Mpondo challenges the reader to think deeply about the consequences of growing up in the other South Africa, where one is constantly met with the harsh realities caused by inequality, poverty, broken homes, and the inevitable empty promises made every fourth quarter.
The book takes the shape of being narrated through the eyes of three women. Makhosi, who seems to be angry with the world and unable to find the language to make her mother, and sister understand her ‘anger’.
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Seraphin Turihamwe is a young man whose life is characterised by movement. After leaving Rwanda under duress and never feeling designed to push people like him out.