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African history
Apartheid
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Belonging
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Family and friends
Oral History
Personal journey
Political analysis
True story
Product details
- ISBN 9781835841143
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Rowanvale Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nadia Kamies has written a profound and moving meditation on what it meant to grow up ‘coloured’ in South Africa under apartheid. The photographs from family albums that gave rise to this project not only represent the aspirations of the families and community about whom Kamies is writing, but are also repositories of memories weighted equally with joy and sorrow. Kamies mines these images for their secrets, showing them to be a record of the past and a promise of what the future might be.
Nadia Kamies graduated from the University of Cape Town as an occupational therapist and worked extensively with children before turning her focus to writing. Her work has been published in academic journals as well as in the mainstream media. She is the author of a chapbook published as part of the artistic project, Nothing of Importance Occurred, in collaboration with the LUCA School of Art in Belgium. She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in History from the University of Pretoria. Her writing is rooted in the heritage of Cape Town where she was born and continues to live. When she is not writing she may be found in a pottery studio, on a yoga mat or swimming.
