The Eternal Audience of One (Rémy Ngamije)

Part 2 of the novel details his experiences in Cape Town as he makes sense of the intersections of race and nationality while navigating the turmoil of being a young foreign national who is desperate to escape the high expectations of his family and the broader Rwandan diaspora in Namibia. The probability of Maxime, a Congolese immigrant who lied to refugee status determination officers about throwing a stone at the president's motorcade during a protest, and subsequently being pursued by the military police from Kinshasa to Lumbubashi before escaping to Zambia, commuting by bus and truck to Cape Town, holding an entire rugby-mad Newlands restaurant hostage on the day the Springboks played the All Blacks was as ludicrous as one ant threatening to storm and take Table Mountain. On multiple occasions, the protagonist experiences both overt and casual racism in Cape Town, including when a security guard only asks the black and coloured people to sign in and out of a university residence; and when a white friend, Andrew, expresses surprise that it is Séraphin "of all the black guys" (439) who becomes sexually involved with his love interest.