Performing Indigeneity: Spectacles of Culture and Identity in Coloniality. London: Pluto Press, 2019. Appendix: List of Cultural Villages in South Africa. References. Index. $65.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-7453-3859-0

The author critically demonstrates how structure influences agency, arguing that the colonial subject is struggling to think independently beyond the snares and entanglements of the structural tentacles—a development he attributes to the colonization of knowledge, power, and imagination. Ndlovu explains the effects of “Define and Rule” as it was articulated by Mamdani; for example, the Zulu identity was synonymous with violence, savagery, and barbarism, an identity which is still portrayed and performed on television media outlets and in cultural villages, where it is sold to tourists who happen to be white and from the other side of the colonial difference (82). The author uses an example of the cultural village of PheZulu Safari Park to illustrate the extent to which black subjects are made to play out scenes depicting selected black culture to be marketed and sold to international tourists.