Book review: Impossible Return

We are all well aware of the pain of forced removals in South Africa and trauma is has had on the psyche of people of colour. Today’s book is called An Impossible Return, written by Prof Siona (pronounced Sheena) O’Connell, an African Studies scholar, curator and filmmaker at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests pivot on ‘colouredness’, memory and trauma and how to think about freedom after apartheid. She has curated numerous exhibitions and directed and produced 6 films including ‘An Impossible Return” which looks at forced removals in Cape Town, as well ‘Promises and Lies: Fault Lines in the ANC’.