Cafe de Move-on Blues

In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an 'absurd, racist insanity'. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today's South Africa; post the evils of apartheid, but also post the dashed hopes and dreams of Mandela, of a future when race and colour would not count. He finds a country still in the grip of a ruling party intent only on caring for itself, to the exclusion of all others; a country where racial divides are deeper than ever. As the old imperial idols of Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger are literally pulled from their pedestals in a mass yearning to destroy the past, Hope ponders the question: what next? Framed as a travelogue, this is a darkly comic, powerful and moving portrait of South Africa—an elegy to a living nation, which is still mad and absurd.

In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope a explorat cum se simtea si parea sa creasca intr-o tara cuprinsa de o „nebunie absurda si rasista”. Intr-o calatorie de drum treizeci de ani mai tarziu, Hope pleaca in cautarea Africii de Sud de astazi; posteaza relele apartheidului, dar si posteaza sperantele si visele sfasiate ale lui Mandela, despre un viitor in care rasa si culoarea nu ar conta.