conversation about the book were quite happy to imagine the kind of book that they wanted this to be, unmoored to what I had in mind. I was tickled by this somewhat.
This, then, is a book that responds to the very significant invitation to the courage and imagination that Simphiwe Dana issues. In it I scrutinise the many ways in which her public work offers us an opportunity to collectively shift our senses of what is possible. I am convinced that both the content of her work – her lyrics, her acting, her columns, her blogs – and our varied responses to her, show us something about where such a shift is needed. Her vision is daring and prophetic, and this explains many public responses to her. She has her finger on several pulses even if we are not always listening to her on the requisite frequency.
We come from people who for millennia knew that art is the site of wisdom, even though we now pretend otherwise. There is wisdom in Simphiwe’s work. There is also invitation and inspiration. She is a human being, so there is also evidence of where she has not yet come to terms with her own wisdom. This is not reason to postpone this response. This book, then, tries to amplify aspects of Simphiwe’s public life and significance.
Some of what she points to needs urgent hearing, but prophets are often unheard in their own time. At the same time, her profundity is not only in her prophetic vision. There is much freedom for our individual selves if we allow ourselves some of the permissions she wrestles with.
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