**My Mzansi Heart** sweeps the reader along two equally entertaining narrative strands, one set in the present day, the other in the past. Together they form the story of King Adz’s life. In the present day we read of Adz’s quest to make some sense of modern South Africa. Adz spends as much time as he can hanging out with a selection of unusual and creative locals, from Roger Ballen to as yet unheard-of street artists. The backbone of the book tells how Adz came here in the early 1990s with his wife and kids, and worked in the world of advertising and digital media. Along the way he just might also have fallen into bad company, but that’s how you get the best stories, innit? The result is this: an opportunity to consider South Africa anew, through the eyes of an outsider who has found a chink in the heart of Mzansi.
His adoration of Rian Malan carries through the unoriginal title of the book, but the connection ends there, found this book at best irritating and badly written with the author seemingly trying too hard.
ReplyDeleteHis adoration of Rian Malan carries through the unoriginal title of the book, but the connection ends there, found this book at best irritating and badly written with the author seemingly trying too hard. Just another worn out and sorry tale of drug addiction etc.
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