Earlier this year, I gave up my (dream) job as a full-time novelist and returned to teaching. Two days in I asked my architecture students at the University of Johannesburg to 'name' their city - the 'Disconnected' City; the 'Migrant' City; and so on. It seemed a nifty short-cut to understanding how the younger citizens of Africa's arguably most 'modern' city view it -and themselves, of course.
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