Somehow, on this continent, in the midst of all the gravity and all the abuse and aberration, there is beauty. But there is also a need to break away from geographic essentialism, and to create a new transcultural, global African identity.
Ashraf is based in the Faculty of Design and Informatics at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Trained at the Universities of Sussex (UK), New Brunswick (Canada), Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA), KwaZulu-Natal (RSA), he has taught in the fields of world literature, post-coloniality, media studies, and visual culture at various universities—in South Africa, in Malaysia and in Northern Cyprus. Ashraf has authored fiction, has penned plays, and has written prolifically on South African art.
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