Lie on your Wounds: The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe by Hook, D ed
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ISBN 9781776142408
Publisher: Wits University Press 2019
600 pages
Soft cover
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: namely his prison letters. Not only do the letters evince Sobukwe’s evident 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.