Cape Town is a Place between.
It makes us wonder how we can understand a city that is most assuredly in Africa, though not--.
It threatens key conceptions we have about the histories, identities, and cultures of those who live on the continent.
This tween-ness complicates and perplexes.
The Cape coloureds.
So too the majority of its citizens, a people Between black and white, native and settler, African and European.
Between two oceans, Between first and third worlds, Between east and west.
Cape Town is a Place between