a KFC. KFC found the black people.
KFC did not play games. They were
in the hood before McDonald’s,
before Burger King, before anyone.
KFC was like, “Yo, we’re here for
you.”
Once you go past the minibus
rank, you’re in Alex proper. I’ve
been in few places where there’s an
electricity like there is in Alex. It’s a
hive of constant human activity, all
day long, people coming and going,
gangsters hustling, guys on the
corner doing nothing, kids running
around. There’s nowhere for all that
energy to go, no mechanism for it to
dissipate, so it erupts periodically in