The morning sun glints against corrugated iron roofs scattered with car engines, beer crates and wire shopping carts. We are in Alexandra, one of the oldest shantytowns in Johannesburg, South Africa. Nelson Mandela rented a one-room shack here in the early 1940s. Today, dozens of yelling protesters push toward the backseat of a Toyota, where […]
Henk Rossouw
Henk Rossouw was a foreign correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education from 2001 to 2005. He is currently a Sauvé Scholar in Montréal, Canada.
