I think that he set the tone for Nthikeng Mohlele's "Pleasure", Ekow Duker's "The God Who Made Mistakes" and Nakhane Toure's "Piggy Boy's Blues".
Sello penned this enthralling narrative with so much depth of emotion. You'd think that, us, the children of post 1976, would treat our fellow human beings with compassion, understanding, acceptance and brotherly-love because WE know how it feels to be marginalized and discriminated against. Just read through a few of Koleka Putuma's poetry collection, "Collective Amnesia" and see the violence with which our children, brothers and sisters are treated. And then, I Iook back to the timelines, how receptive were SAfricans of the LGBT community then? Have we made any inroads in that regards? All I know is, we are still persecuting them for not fitting into our neatly labelled and lined boxes. I sometimes felt like slapping him, Tshepo, other times, I just wanted to fold him in a hearty embrace and say, "Don't be afraid, do you". This very dramatic story of Tshepo AKA Angelo was such an emotional rollercoaster.
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