A WALK IN THE NIGHT, and other stories

: la Guma (A.)

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182pp., paperback, Reprint, London, (1962) 2024

 

"Achieved in 90 pages what other African writers had tried to achieve in the course of many years" Wole Soyinka

Alex La Guma (1925-1985) was born in District Six. He was a leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO), a member of the South African Communist Party, and a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial. He left South Africa for the UK in 1966 and spent the rest of his life in exile. He was chief representative of the African National Congress in the Caribbean and was living in Havana when he died. His books include In the Fog of the Seasons' End and Time of the Butcherbird.