Prominent podcaster and analyst Mbuyiseni Ndlozi starts his first book by sharing his own story of growing up fatherless. When he excelled at school, his father tried to claim him, but Ndlozi rejected him – he had no father other than God. Yet, years later, when he stumbles upon his father’s name while looking into 1980s violence in Sebokeng, where his father was a taxi owner, he decides to go ahead and interview him . . . Ndlozi’s research is on colonial violence and its impact, with violence turning inward in ‘black-on-black’ violence and Black self-hatred. He tells of the youth revolt of the 1980s, when Black youth wrestled back their humanity, escaping ‘permanent juniority’, the state of always waiting to attain adulthood and never truly living in time, even as adults. He examines social and anti-social violence (e.g. com-tsotsis) – and how politics can become the politics of love. Deeply thoughtful and uncompromising, Love and Violence offers a stimulating, highly relevant read.