A sequel to the award-winning This Thing Called the Future, this companion book leaves the topic of HIV-AIDS for other critical themes emerging in South Africa–themes relevant to the United States. Violence in the townships, including violence against immigrants from other African communities; fears that outsiders are stealing jobs from South Africans; rival taxi associations vie for power and territories in bloody taxi wars. This coming-of-age story is set in a time of violence but Khosi faces...
