Mhudi Sol T Plaatje ( Signed by artist Cecil Skotnes )

Sol Plaatje was a significant writer who wrote the first novel in English by a black South African, entitled "Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago". He wrote movingly about this period after Shaka's death, and it focussed on the Ndebele defeat of the Barolong in the 1830's. It was only edited and published some ten years later, by Lovedale Press (1930). The complete manuscript was first published in 1978 and includes a greater focus on "Mhudi" as well as elements of "oral" narrative which had been excised from the first edition.

Signed by Cecil Skotnes with giftinscription.

1975. Hard cover. Very good conditions. 165 pages. The dust cover has some edgewear.