A range of contemporary popular travelogues by black South Africans offer fresh, often provocative, perspectives.
Before becoming a tourism champion, she had grown up with the idea camping was “purely for white people”.Those Who Travel Meet Themselves Those Who Travel Meet ThemselvesIn it she casts herself and fellow millennial travel contributors as “door openers” in 21st century South Africa.
Knitting together travel and life trajectories, she encourages young black South Africans to grab hold of horizons denied to earlier generations.These vibrant, varied South African writers embrace the open road. Far from needing to “justify their movements”, which tends to be the case for black travellers, as historian Christabelle Peters highlights, they bring irrepressible stories of touring for its own sake. They claim spaces and places as black travellers, as movers and shakers.
At another level these travelogues don’t miss a chance to explore their mobility as a form of time travel and human expression. The past is never far away as they think of those who didn’t have the same freedoms. At the same time, they assess how much the country they call home has “travelled” from its past, as well as towards imagined post-apartheid futures.
For these contemporary writers, who take themselves and their readers on transporting journeys, there’s no turning back.This article was first published by
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