Bandung

At the age of 12 he already knew a lot about anger. And it was with a past like this that he came to Bandung in 1955. Richard Wright: the witness who had been oppressed since childhood, like the inhabitants of Africa and Asia in colonial times, and who eventually liberated themselves.

During those days, in the road once called the Grote Postweg (the Great Post Road), Wright, the black writer, saw something important in the life histories of people like him: "The despised, the insulted, the hurt, the dispossessedin short, the underdogs of the human race were meeting."

May 5, 2015