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Lie on your wounds : the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso, author, Hook, Derek, editor

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\"This book of approximately 300 letters provides access to the voice of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource that exists: his prison letters. Not only do these letters evince Sobukwe's storytelling abilities, they convey the complexity of a man who defied easy categorisation. More than this: they are testimony to both the desolate conditions of his imprisonment and to Sobukwe's unbending commitment to the cause of African liberation. The memory of Sobukwe, inspirational political leader and first President of the Pan Africanist Congress, has been consistently marginalized in histories of the liberation struggle. Given Sobukwe's antagonistic relations both to white liberalism and the African National Congress, it is unsurprising that he has been subjected to a 'consensus of forgetting'. This collection of letters brings Sobukwe's voice back to the fore\"--Back cover.

• Publisher: Wits University Press
• Subject: Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso Correspondence. / Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso. / Political activists South Africa Correspondence. / Political activists South Africa Biography. / South Africa Politics and government 1961-1978.
• ISBN: 1776142403, 9781776142408, 9781776144617, 1776144619

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DT1949.S64 A4 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE