Gabeba Baderoon is a South African poet living and working in Philadelphia. Photography by Genevieve Gaignard.

Gabeba Baderoon is a South African poet living and working in Philadelphia. Photography by Genevieve Gaignard.
Denigrated by the Nazis, lauded by black intellectuals, embraced by the apartheid-era government, and fitting in everywhere and nowhere, the essence of the noted South African artist is hard to distill—and she’d probably like it that way.
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