Ksenia Robbe: “The neglect of the ‘common’ and of issues of coloniality during the transitions is an unresolved problem, with which South Africa (and Russia) are dealing today” Ksenia Robbe is an assistant professor at Leiden University, working in the fields of African and Russian literary and cultural studies. She grew up in Russia and was trained at the Universities of St. Petersburg and Giessen (Germany). She is the author of Conversations of Motherhood: South African Wom