Milisuthando (2023)

• biography
• historical

Logline

A coming-of-age personal essay on what it means to become human in the context of race explores the memories and experiences of Milisuthando Bongela

Plot Summary

Bongela was born to a loving middle-class Xhosa community in the Transkei — an unrecognized state that was formulated out of the separate development dream of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Transkei was designed to raise some denizens on a diet of suggestions that they did not experience the ills of apartheid, and though it was dissolved after the fall of apartheid, it left behind bewildered memories in those who built their lives inside the regime’s sordid social experiment.