BOTH MY MOM AND I have been owners of brown sofas — albeit hers brought more wonderful memories than mine has (so far).
I grew up in a township called Zola, in Soweto. I was born in 1980 — when hair was as big as shoulder pads, and eyeshadow sparkled on eyelids during the day the way disco balls did on the ceilings was not just a song by Beyoncé.
