Lie On Your Wounds: The prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Editor: Derek Hook

Robert Sobukwe, founder of the Pan Africanist Congress, was better known during rather than after apartheid. With South Africa’s changing political climate and the decline of the ANC’s hegemonic hold on power, Sobukwe is re-emerging as a political thinker. This selection of his prison letters breaks the silence that has characterised his legacy.