Damian Platt spoke to Sounds and Colours about
Nothing By Accident.
Nothing By Accident?
‘Nada por acaso’ (‘nothing by accident’) was a saying we used all the time at Afroreggae. But the flipside of the saying is related to my aim to understand why Rio is so violent. There’s this narrative about Rio: that violence is out of control. Fundamentally, that narrative criminalises poverty, making poor people to blame for something with is not their manufacture. In Rio, everything’s an accident and nothing’s an accident.
Could you tell me more about how you came to write the book?