Staying with the crisis: a review of Eve Fairbanks’s The Inheritors

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 For a brief summary of the Reitz Four incident, see Sisonke Msimang’s discussion in her review of Fairbanks’s book: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/27/south-africa-trc-reitz-ufs-jansen-race-justice-reconciliation/. For a trenchant discussion of Rhodes Must Fall, see Achille Mbembe’s “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive” and Francis B Nyamnjoh’s #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016).2 See Ntongela Masilela’s “The ‘Black Atlantic’ and African Modernity in South Africa”, 92.3 The Inheritors, xi.4 Ibid., xiii.5 Ibid., xiii.6 Ibid., 35.7 Ibid., 104–5.8 See David Reiersgord’s criticism in his review of The Inheritors.Additional informationNotes on contributorsWamuwi MbaoWamuwi Mbao is a literary critic and essayist. His reviews, essays and fiction appear in the Johannesburg Review of Books, Africa Is A Country, and other venues. He received a South African Literary Award in 2019 for his critical oeuvre. He teaches in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University. He is the editor of Years of Fire and Ash: Poetry of Decolonization, an anthology of South African struggle poetry published in 2021.