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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home
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'SISONKE Msimang was born in exile to South African parents—a freedom fighter and an accountant— and raised in Zambia, Kenya and Canada before studying in the US as an undergraduate. Her family returned to South Africa after apartheid was abolished in the early 1990s.

'Always Another Country is the story of a young girl’s path to womanhood—a journey that took her from Africa to America and back again, then on to a new home in Australia.

'Frank, fierce and insightful, Sisonke reflects candidly on growing up stateless, the naive, heady euphoria of returning at last to her parents’ homeland, and her disillusionment with present-day South Africa and its new elites. Hers is a bold new voice on feminism, race and politics: in her beloved South Africa, in Australia, and around the world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2018 .
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      • Published August 2018.

      ISBN: 9781925603798, 9781925626773
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      World Editions ,
      2018 .
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      Extent: 365p.
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      • Published 4 September 2018

      ISBN: 9781642860207
    • Johannesburg,
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      South Africa,
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      Southern Africa, Africa,
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      Jonathan Ball ,
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      Extent: 311p.
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      • Published 19 May 2018

      ISBN: 9781868428489

Works about this Work

Australia in Three Books Winnie Dunn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 14-17)

— Review of Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home Sisonke Msimang , 2018 single work autobiography ; The White Girl Tony Birch , 2019 single work novel
Books of Resistance : The Writers Pushing for a Revolution in Australia's Refugee Policies Brigid Delaney , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 September 2018;

'Australia’s government tries to stop stories from being told but a new wave of authors are rallying against injustice.'

Sisonke Msimang Always Another Country 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 August 2018;

'Sisonke Msimang’s father fled South Africa and the violent repression of the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1960s. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia and raised in a family at the centre of a revolutionary community in exile. They were forever moving to yet “another country” – Kenya and Canada were to follow. “…the dream of freedom was a sort of home for us,” she writes. They return to post-Apartheid South Africa in the early 1990s. It’s thrilling at first. But soon, Msimang realises that her absence from the country during the toughest years of struggle alienates her from the experience of other black South Africans. She discovers that it is one thing to be “of” and another to be “from” a country.' (Introduction)

To Belong and Also to Be Free : An Insider-Outsider View Dorothy Driver , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 403 2018; (p. 53-54)

— Review of Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home Sisonke Msimang , 2018 single work autobiography

'Msimang’s memoir, Always Another Country, registers her relocation from South Africa to Australia, but its overall coverage is the series of moves she made, mostly with parents and siblings, from Zambia, where she was born, to Kenya, Canada, and the United States, usually on account of her father’s political activity (as a young man he had been recruited to the armed wing of the African National Congress). These countries, she suggests, have their own varieties of racism, but the memoir also traces the stealthy shifts of power via class and gender in their intersections with race.' (Excerpt)

To Belong and Also to Be Free : An Insider-Outsider View Dorothy Driver , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 403 2018; (p. 53-54)

— Review of Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home Sisonke Msimang , 2018 single work autobiography

'Msimang’s memoir, Always Another Country, registers her relocation from South Africa to Australia, but its overall coverage is the series of moves she made, mostly with parents and siblings, from Zambia, where she was born, to Kenya, Canada, and the United States, usually on account of her father’s political activity (as a young man he had been recruited to the armed wing of the African National Congress). These countries, she suggests, have their own varieties of racism, but the memoir also traces the stealthy shifts of power via class and gender in their intersections with race.' (Excerpt)

To Belong and Also to Be Free : An Insider-Outsider View Dorothy Driver , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 403 2018; (p. 53-54)

— Review of Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home Sisonke Msimang , 2018 single work autobiography

'Msimang’s memoir, Always Another Country, registers her relocation from South Africa to Australia, but its overall coverage is the series of moves she made, mostly with parents and siblings, from Zambia, where she was born, to Kenya, Canada, and the United States, usually on account of her father’s political activity (as a young man he had been recruited to the armed wing of the African National Congress). These countries, she suggests, have their own varieties of racism, but the memoir also traces the stealthy shifts of power via class and gender in their intersections with race.' (Excerpt)

Australia in Three Books Winnie Dunn , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 14-17)

— Review of Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home Sisonke Msimang , 2018 single work autobiography ; The White Girl Tony Birch , 2019 single work novel
To Belong and Also to Be Free : An Insider-Outsider View Dorothy Driver , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 403 2018; (p. 53-54)

— Review of Always Another Country : A Memoir of Exile and Home Sisonke Msimang , 2018 single work autobiography

'Msimang’s memoir, Always Another Country, registers her relocation from South Africa to Australia, but its overall coverage is the series of moves she made, mostly with parents and siblings, from Zambia, where she was born, to Kenya, Canada, and the United States, usually on account of her father’s political activity (as a young man he had been recruited to the armed wing of the African National Congress). These countries, she suggests, have their own varieties of racism, but the memoir also traces the stealthy shifts of power via class and gender in their intersections with race.' (Excerpt)

Sisonke Msimang Always Another Country 2018 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 August 2018;

'Sisonke Msimang’s father fled South Africa and the violent repression of the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1960s. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia and raised in a family at the centre of a revolutionary community in exile. They were forever moving to yet “another country” – Kenya and Canada were to follow. “…the dream of freedom was a sort of home for us,” she writes. They return to post-Apartheid South Africa in the early 1990s. It’s thrilling at first. But soon, Msimang realises that her absence from the country during the toughest years of struggle alienates her from the experience of other black South Africans. She discovers that it is one thing to be “of” and another to be “from” a country.' (Introduction)

Books of Resistance : The Writers Pushing for a Revolution in Australia's Refugee Policies Brigid Delaney , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 13 September 2018;

'Australia’s government tries to stop stories from being told but a new wave of authors are rallying against injustice.'

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