“Koko, did you eat?”
“Yes, Trevor.”
“Koko, I’m going out.”
“Okay, be careful.”
“Bye, Koko.”
“Bye, Trevor.”—The fact that I grew up in a world
run by women was no accident.
Apartheid kept me away from my
father because he was white, but for
almost all the kids I knew on my
grandmother’s block in Soweto,
apartheid had taken away their
fathers as well, just for different