Nokukhanya, Mother of Light - Peter Rule

Nokukhanya, Mother of Light - Peter Rule(with Marilyn Aitkin and Jenny van Dyk) - 1993 - The Grail, South Africa - 180p, black and white photographs - Paperback in good condition.

"I cannot say exactly what it was that made me want to meet Mrs Luthuli so much. But the more I heard about her the more I tried to imagine what she would be like. She sounded like a strong woman to me. I likes her name, Nokukhanya, very much. The name sort of said to me: some light must shine on the names of the women of this country who have suffered so many injustices but receive so little recognition .....

It is a free-flowing story, so ordinary yet so special... The most beautiful part of this book is that Mama Nokukhanua herself speaking, telling what her life was like." - Gcina Mhlophe

CONTENTS:
Foreword

Preface

Sunday February 25, 1990 - King's Park, Durban

The old ones: Ancestors and Missionaries

Education: My life's goal

Courtship and marriage

Groutville: My new home

The soil becomes my friend

MaBhengu's famous upbringing

A partnership of leaders

The ANC lives in my house

Going to Norway

Swaziland: Working the land of the ancestors

The death of my best friend

And life begins again

Praise poem to Nokukhany

Bibliography