So here it was, the African pattern. First the struggle, then the euphoria of the freedom dance, then the collapse into grandiose caricature and chaos. And after that, the pale new dawn, the promise and sometimes the reality of ascent.AFTER THE Dance first appeared in 2004, ten years after South Africa's wildly enthusiastic embrace of freedom and democracy. Its value now, fifteen years later, seems to be as a portrait of a new democracy that is losing...