In no other society in the world have urbanisation and
industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour
as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented
narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures
the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression of the
millions of workers who helped to build and shape modern South
Africa. The book spans a three-hundred-year history beginning with
the exportation of slave labour from Mozambique in the eighteenth
century and ending with the strikes and tensions on the platinum
belt in recent years. It shows not only the age-old mobility of
African migrants across the continent but also, with the growing
demand for labour in the mining industry, the importation of
Chinese indentured migrant workers. Contributions include 18 essays
and over 90 artworks and photographs that traverse homesteads,
chiefdoms and mining hostels, taking readers into the materiality
of migrant life and its customs and traditions, including the
rituals practiced by migrants in an effort to preserve connections
to "home" and create a sense of "belonging". The essays and visual
materials provide multiple perspectives on the lived experience of
migrant labourers and celebrate their extraordinary journeys. A
Long Way Home was conceived during the planning of an art
exhibition entitled 'Ngezinyawo: Migrant Journeys' at Wits Art
Museum. The interdisciplinary nature of the contributions and the
extraordinary collection of images selected to complement and
expand on the text make this a unique collection.
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