"I Was Blind to My Own Blackness by Apartheid's Design": Milisuthando Bongela on Milisuthando

The self-described South African "writer, editor, cultural worker and artist"--and now debut feature filmmaker--Milisuthando Bongela grew up under apartheid. Yet she also didn't, at least not within the straightforward narrative of having witnessed a racist colonial regime heroically toppled by Black liberator Nelson Mandela. Indeed, the young Bongela wasn’t aware of her fellow Black countrymen’s struggle in cities like Soweto. But neither were most of the residents of The Transkei, an unrec...