The Same Bricks: From a Place of Torture to the Seat of Justice on Constitution Hill
A Continent in One Courtyard Some places ask more of you than a visit. They ask you to carry something away. Constitution Hill in Johannesburg is one of them. I was there with a group of young leaders from every corner of Africa, from Khartoum to Cape Town, Dakar to Dar es Salaam, brought together by a shared fellowship. Our programme for the day was simple. In the morning we would tour Constitution Hill, its old prison cells and its court. In the evening we would return for a reception and dinner in the yard between the two. It sounded like a schedule. It turned out to be a journey from one South Africa to another, all within a few hundred metres of brick. Image: Beneath the Faces of the Law Sami Altalib, Sudan (left), and Mohamed Salat Osman, Kenya (right), stand before the portraits of the judges who shaped South Africa's Constitutional Court. Two young Africans, smiling in a gallery built on the ruins of a prison. The Architecture of Humiliation The tour began in Number F...
