‘I like the word “comic” because life is ridiculous’

Abstract

Since 2006 Koni Benson has co-produced life histories of people engaged in political struggles against displacement and to demand land and public services. She is an unusual university historian as she is committed to creative approaches that link history, art and activism, and works with student, activist and cultural collectives in southern Africa on people’s history projects. She has recently published a comic book, drawn from her PhD thesis, called Crossroads: I Live Where I Like, on women’s organised resistance to forced removals. You can read the review on page 58. Here she interviews one of the illustrators, Nathan Trantraal.