20pp., paperback, Chimurenga, Cape Town, 2022

Paula Akugizibwe on skin, violence, and the limits of citizenship in South Africa. Her essay grew out of a deeply disturbing encounter with the South African police in Cape Town in early 2008. You Look Illegal forms part of the Chimurenganyana Series, a pavement literature project consisting of serialized monographs expanding on themes developed in Chimurenga’s periodicals.

Writer Paula Ihozo Akugizibwe was born in Nigeria to parents of Rwandan and Ugandan origin and raised mostly in Southern Africa. She is currently based in Kigali, Rwanda. She is a contributing editor of Chimurenga.

YOU LOOK ILLEGAL

: Akugizibwe (P.)

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