AN AFRICAN TRAGEDY - R R R Dhlomo (Lovedale Press)

Lovedale Press no date but this book appears to have been published by the Press in 1928

Small softcover with slight edgewear. A nice little copy of this exceptionally rare book.

One of the scarce old Lovedale Press publications we have for sale. Lovedale was a mission station in Victoria East, some two miles north of Alice, Eastern Cape and it's press renowned for publishing interesting tomes on missionary life, religious matters, and traditional native observations etc.

40 pages, 8vo (195 x 128 mm), original printed brown card wrappers.

'Rolfes Reginald Raymond Dhlomo (1906-1971) was born near Pietermaritzburg and was the brother of renowned KwaZulu-Natal poet H.I.E. Dhlomo. He worked as a mine clerk in Johannesburg and as a freelance journalist becoming, in 1932, assistant editor of the Bantu World and, in 1943, editor of Ilanga lase Natal. Most of his creative work is in Zulu and consists of historical novels of nineteenth-century Zulu leaders: U-Dingane (1936), U-Shaka (1937), U-Mpande (1938), U-Cetshwayo (1952) and UDinizulu (1968). He wrote a novella An African Tragedy (1928), the first piece of English prose fiction by a black South African to appear in book form and presenting a sombre picture of life in the black urban slums.