• DARKEST BEFORE DAWN, writings, testimonies and correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, edited with a biographical account and conclusion by Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher

DARKEST BEFORE DAWN, writings, testimonies and correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, edited with a biographical account and conclusion by Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher

: Hook (D.) ed.

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360pp., illus., paperback, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2024

ISBN: 9781776148561

 

Robert Sobukwe (1924-1978) founded the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania in 1959 and was its first president. He was imprisoned on Robben Island from 1960-1969. After his release he lived in Kimberley with family under house arrest. This collection covers his writings from 1969 until his death.

"Sobukwe remains, par excellence, the personification of a particular form of freedom - decolonised freedom - that may yet lead post-apartheid South Africa from its present darkness into a new democratic dawn." Thula Simpson, Associate Professor, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria, and author of History of South Africa: From 1902 to the present (2021)

Derek Hook is Professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA and Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He edited the first volume of Sobukwe letters, Lie on Your Wounds: The prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. His other books include (Post)apartheid Conditions and A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial.

Leswin Laubscher is Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology Department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape. He is co-editor (with Derek Hook) of Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology (2022).