Life - Soweto Style - Mark Lanning, Neil Roake & Glynis Horning

Life - Soweto Style - Mark Lanning, Neil roake and Glynis Horning - 2003, first edtion - Struik Publishers - 160p - Numerous full-colour photographs - Crisp, clean. solid, shiny hardcover with dusrcover in very goog condition - Internally clean and tightly bound - an unread copy.

Contents:

• Hip, hop and happening

• Life on the streets

• Cheers!

• Signs of the times

• Smashing fashion

• Home talk

• God is everywhere

• Soweto food

Soweto - SO South WE Western TO Townships

Soweto is a unique, cosmopotitan African experience - one of the largest black cities on the continent, with an eclectic mix of ethnic groups from South Africa and beyond, many holding proudly to their traditional cultural heritage while enthusiastically embracing the modern western way of life.

In visits over two years, photographer Mark Lanning, creative director and foodie Neil Roake and writer Glynis Horning set about capturing the warmth, creative energy, adaptability, faith, community spirit and indomitable humour of Soweto's people, as reflected in their fashion, music, homes, taverns, business and distinctive cuisine.

It's a pilgrimage the three urge every tourist and every South African, to make at least once. Life - Soweto Style will inspire such a trip, and provide a vivid reminder of it afterwards.

"Soweto's street culture is a celebration of an overwhelming exuberance of spirit, an inspiration and creativity in the teeth of adversity, and style is everywhere - in its pyramids of plastic-perfect fruits in basins on the pavements, its sharp young dressers, its hand-painted street signs, its shipping container shops and mobile dry-cleaning depots, and its struggle monuments now spearing the vast blue sky"