Sue Williamson’s new show opens in Joburg and a retrospective is coming soon
		
	 
	
		
		An edited extract from The Lion’s Historian: Africa’s Animal Past 
		
	 
	
		
		The author, reporter, editor and chronicler was both a man of his time and ahead of it
		
	 
	
		
		Having conducted the bulk of his study during apartheid, which informed his scholarship, Peterson left us with provocations for the future
		
	 
	
		
		The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading