Imonti Modern seeks to recount a previously untold narrative of East London's Coloured and African locations after the Second World War and before these communities were ripped apart in the early 1960s by apartheid-era forced removals. Photographs, poems and oral accounts by former residents portray their public and cultural life in the city's locations on the East and West Banks of the Buffalo River. In their own words and through their own pictures, these stories reveal how African residents created their own styles and forms of dress, music, leisure and home-making to forge a unique urban...
Imonti Modern seeks to recount a previously untold narrative of East London's Coloured and African locations after the Second World War and before the...