THERE’S an old African proverb that says: “Until the lions have their own historians the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”This came to mind last weekend when I watched a one woman performance of America, Who Hurt You? in Oxford by Sarah Jones.The Tony Award-winning comedian used multi-character monologues to explore the trauma that has beset the United States since, if we are to be honest, way before the far-right leadership the country has twice elected in the shape of Donald Trump.

ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians

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