Lie on your wounds : the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe / selected and edited by Derek Hook.

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019.

xxi, 565 pages : black-and-white illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm.

"Letters of opposition to South African apartheid"--Front cover.

"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.

English

June 05, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-554) and index.