BONGANI MADONDO | Borne in the USA

A lover of America for most of his life, the essayist looks to its literary spirit to pen a ‘Lament to an Imaginary Friend in America’ as the country hold its 2024 elections

05 November 2024 - 22:41 By BONGANI MADONDO

It's strange, this obsession with the flag. Everywhere, a riot of flags. At crossroads, on building fronts, on car hoods, on payphones, on the furniture displayed in the windows, on the boats tied to the dock and on moorings with no boats, everywhere in every form, flapping in the wind or on stickers, an epidemic of flags ... — Bernard-Henri Lévy, “American Vertigo.”                                                    ..

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