Malibongwe /
"In the late 1970s, Lindiwe Mabuza, a.k.a. Sono Molefe, sent out a call for poems written by women in ANC camps and offices throughout Africa and the world. The book that resulted - released in the early 1980s by Swedish, Danish and German publishers and anti-apartheid solidarity movements - wa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durban [South Africa] :
uHhlanga,
2020.
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| Edition: | First South African edition. |
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| Summary: | "In the late 1970s, Lindiwe Mabuza, a.k.a. Sono Molefe, sent out a call for poems written by women in ANC camps and offices throughout Africa and the world. The book that resulted - released in the early 1980s by Swedish, Danish and German publishers and anti-apartheid solidarity movements - was unsurprisingly banned by the apartheid regime. Half-forgotten, it has never appeared in a South African edition - until now. Authorised by the editor, this re-issue of Malibongwe re-establishes a place for women artists in the history of South Africa's liberation. These are the struggles within the Struggle: a book that records the hopes and fears, the drives and disappointments, and the motivation and resilience of women at the front lines of the battle against apartheid. Here we see the evidence, too often airbrushed out of the narratives of national liberation, of a deep and unrelenting radicalism within women; of a dream of a South Africa in which not only freedom reigned, but justice too"--Front flap. |
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| Item Description: | This collection first published in English in 1981 as "Malibongwe : ANC women : poetry is also their weapon" "This edition carries minor grammatical edits to the 1981 edition" |
| Physical Description: | 192 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 28). |
| ISBN: | 9780620869126 0620869127 |