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

Published Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series African lives series ; number 14 African lives series ; no. 14. Contents Preface / Otua Sobukwe -- Introduction -- Letters: 1960-1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969 -- Address at Fort Hare College by Mr Sobukwe, October 21, 1949 Summary This book, comprising approximately 300 letters, provides access to the voice of Robert Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource of Sobukwe's voice that exists: his prison letters. Not only do the letters evince Sobukwe's storytelling abilities, they convey the complexity of a man who defied easy categorization. More than this: they are testimony both to the desolate conditions of his imprisonment and to Sobukwe's unbending commitment to the cause of African liberation. The memory of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, inspirational political leader and first President of the PanAfricanist Congress, has been sadly neglected in postapartheid South Africa. In 1960, Sobukwe led the AntiPass Protests, which culminated in the Sharpeville Massacre, which proved a crucial turning point in the eventual demise of apartheid. Nevertheless, Sobukwe - a man once thought to hold greater promise for the liberation of South Africa than even Nelson Mandela - has been consistently marginalised in histories of the liberation struggle. Jailed for nine years, including a sixyear period of near complete solitary confinement on Robben Island, Sobukwe was silenced throughout his life, a condition that has been extended into the postapartheid present, so much so that we can say that Sobukwe was better known during rather than after apartheid. Given Sobukwe's antagonistic relations both to white liberalism and to the African National Congress (whom he felt had betrayed the principles of African Nationalism), it is unsurprising that he has been subjected to a 'consensus of forgetting'. With the changing political climate of recent years, the decline of the African National Congress's hegemonic hold on power, the reemergence of Black Consciousness and Africanist political discourse, the growth of student protests, Sobukwe is being looked to once again.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 05, 2019) Subject Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso -- Correspondence SUBJECT Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso -- Correspondence Sobukwe, Robert Mangaliso fast Subject Political prisoners -- South Africa -- Correspondence Anti-apartheid activists -- Correspondence HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General. HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. Anti-apartheid activists Political prisoners South Africa Genre/Form personal correspondence. Personal correspondence Personal correspondence. Correspondance privée. Form Electronic book Author Hook, Derek, editor. ISBN 9781776142422 177614242X 1776142411 9781776142415 1766142427 1776142721 9781766142425 9781776142729

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