Item 1222 - Lie on your Wounds: The prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

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ZA COM RCB-1222

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Lie on your Wounds: The prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

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  • 2019 (Creation)

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Printed matter, 565 pages.
Dimensions: 23.5cm x 15.5cm
Publisher: Wits University Press
Place of Publication: Johannesburg
ISBN 978-1-77614-240-8

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This book of approximately 300 letters provide access to the voice of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe via the single most poignant resource that exists: his prison letters. Not only do the lettera 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.

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  • English

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NMCM: Reading room

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Nelson Mandela Foundation

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Final

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Full

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