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'Paperless' is Dr Buntu Siwisa's debut novel. A senior researcher at the Wits Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), Siwisa also published Rugby, Resistance and Politics: How Dan Qeqe Helped Shape the History of Port Elizabeth (Jacana, 2022). His foray into fiction has been a journey of about two decades. His manuscript accompanied him abroad, where he completed his doctoral studies, a silent (and perhaps goading) witness to his intellectual and personal coming of age. It is a semi-biographical story about Luzuko Goba, a young man who moves from South Africa to England in pursuit of his doctoral studies at Oxford.
BOOK: Paperless by Buntu Siwisa (Jacana)
The tale of an African boy coming of age away from home, filled with yearning and idealism, is not new. Neither is that of the colourful group of migrants who form an unlikely band in their quest for survival in a host city that offers both promise and hostility depending on one's fortune. Two factors make Paperless a unique telling of the migrant story. Firstly, the foreigner is a South African in the 21st century.
