/lit/ - Literature

>Cape Town
Anybody else live here? It’s probably the most /lit/ city on the African continent but that’s not saying much. Obviously half of the city is literal slums so straight out the block they don’t really count. The white and middle-class black parts are basically ex-farmers and ex-tribals who buy into the logic of globalist conspicuous consumption (10 years behind everybody else) and have only loose images and intimations of what genuine culture actually is, glimpsed from pop culture. It’s not a surprise, given how isolated we are, but the literary classes are laughably provincial. The most you’ll get out of them is one owning a copy of ‘12 rules for life’ or a Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie novel. You might find a few arty types (let me stress that this a small minority,) attending experimental music gigs or sharing Rupi Kaur, maybe even a couple reading Steve Biko, but the discussion doesn’t go beyond your usual Trevor Noah-grade politics. It mostly comes across posing because there doesn’t seem to be much substance to any of it. That said, the whole city’s aesthetic could be /lit/, but I don’t think it has been tapped into properly yet.