CBB Cape Town Students Find Inspiration in a Nation in Flux
Colby Magazine Volume 91 Issue 1 Winter 2002 Article 8 January 2002 A Brave New World: CBB Cape Town students find inspiration in a nation in flux Gerry Boyle Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine Part of the African Studies Commons Recommended Citation Boyle, Gerry (2002) "A Brave New World: CBB Cape Town students find inspiration in a nation in flux," Colby Magazine: Vol. 91 : Iss. 1 , Article 8. Available at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/colbymagazine/vol91/iss1/8 This Contents is brought to you for free and open access by the Colby College Archives at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in Colby Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Colby. CBB Cape Town students find inspiration in a nation in flux By Gerry Boyle 778 • Photos by Irvine Clements ; ou spend days interviewing, observing, scribbling in notebooks, ing squatter settlements. It carries with it still an abhorrent racist holding up a tape recorder. Later you pore over notebooks and legacy, yet African-American students who hive been to Cape tapes,Y sift the wheat from the journalistic chaff, search for that one To wn talk of fi nding for the fi rst time escape from the subtle moment, that single situation, that pearl-like utterance that captures racism of America. precisely the spirit of the subject, the place, the story. Cape To wn is a place where unquenchable optimism springs from Ifyou're writing about Cape To wn and the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin the violence and poverty of the racially segregated townships like program based in the city, there are too many choices.
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