These stories and ‘reports' of black Johannesburg in the late 1950s ( ‘banned' in South Africa until August 1982) gather together the best writings of Can Themba, who died in Swaziland in 1968. Lewis Nkosi wrote in his preface: €œHe fused into the English language the township idiom and rejuvenated tired words with an extreme imagery deriving from a life of danger and violence €¦ Can Themba's most splendid moments of journalism were the celebration of township life, because for him the township — in his case Sophiatown — represented the strength and the will to survive of the African people, for in the township the moments of splendor were very splendid indeed, surpassing anything white Johannesburg could offer. €
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-908396-87-0, 1982, 185x120mm, 128 pages
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