In Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of
life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that
he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural
Mpondoland, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the
methodologies that have enabled the community’s resilience and
survival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral
and living characters, following the tenor of village life, to
offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of
centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death. Canham
shows that Mpondo theory is grounded in and develops in relation to
the natural world, where the river and hill are key sites of being
and resistance. Central too, is the interface between ancestors and
the living, in which life and death become a continuity and a
boundlessness that white supremacy and neoliberalism cannot
interdict. By charting a course of black life in Mpondoland, Canham
tells a story of blackness on the African continent and beyond.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient
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