Blue Eland Foxtrot is a political satire wrapped in an adventure story. With wit and irony it tracks a group of students battling their way through 1970s South Africa and the anti-apartheid struggle of the 1980s.

The story brings alive the efforts of its motley crew to make sense of their own sexualities, histories, identities and struggles between life’s pleasures and the country’s horror.

Part 1, The Fogstar Project, sees them grappling with their anarchic actions and desires in context of the developing black consciousness movement. Part 2, The Ghost Crabs, has them taking different paths to tackle the crumbling apartheid regime.

In his role as editor / interlocutor, Professor Rambunctious Sithole – who moves from Professor of Hitler Studies to Marxist Cosmology as the book progresses –provides references and humorous insights as to the story’s resonance with the current post-apartheid utopia.

In keeping with the adventure genre, Blue Eland Foxtrot hurtles at a rip roaring pace.

 

About the Author:

Willie Currie is a cultural worker living in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Willie Currie is currently writing novels and studying the psychology of groups. In the 70s, he was a high school teacher. In the ‘80s he became General Secretary of the Film and Allied Workers Organisation mobilising for a free and independent media and film industry while volunteering as a member of the Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee, an affiliate of the United Democratic Front (UDF).

In the mid-1990s, he was a special adviser to Pallo Jordan, Minister of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in the first democratic government steering the development of telecommunications policy. In the 2000s he managed the global advocacy strategy for internet governance for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and then became a regulator at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa. He studied Political Philosophy and English at the University of Stellenbosch and holds an MA in Film and Television Studies for Education from the University of London, Institute of Education.

 

Blue Eland Foxtrot is published by Sneezewood Books