Sol Plaatje Selected Writings
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/1997
These books are not Plaatje's only claim to fame. In the course of a prolific career he wrote letters to the press, newspaper articles and editorials, pamphlets, political speeches, evidence to government commissions of enquiry, unpublished autobiographical writings, and many personal letters. Together they provide both an engaging personal record and a very readable -- and revealing -commentary on South African social and political affairs during the era of segregation, from 1899 to Plaatje's tragically early death in 1932.
What he wrote has a unique historical importance, all the more meaningful from the perspective of the 1990s. Brian Willan has assembled and edited this fascinating collection from a variety of disparate and often obscure sources, making a comprehensive selection of Plaatje's writings available to a wider audience for the first time.