Requiem for Sophiatown (Penguin Modern Classics) [Paperback]

Can Themba (Author)

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Paperback: 161 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (January 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0143185489
ISBN-13: 978-0143185482
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces

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A very small handful of black South African journalists tried to keep the written voice of black South Africans alive in the earliest, ugliest years of Apartheid, the 1960s. Can Themba was one of them. Nat Nakasa and Lewis Nkosi were others. The first two both died in exile. These are voices worth preserving, and their descriptions of South African urban life at that time are fascinating and enlightening.Take Me With You When You Go

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