AN OUTLINE OF THE NEW AFRICAN MOVEMENT IN SOUTH AFRICA

404 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2013

An intellectual history of the New African Movement: writers, political and religious leaders, artists, teachers, scientists who called themselves New Africans, to distinguish themselves from the Old Africans since they were engaged with creating a new African modernity rather than finding consolation in the old ways of traditional societies. Major figures in the movement included S.E.K. Mqhayi, Clement Martyn Doke, H.I.E.Dhlomo, Nadine Gordimer, Jordan Mgubane, Ezekiel Mhpahlele and R.V.Selope, Pixley ka Isaka Seme and Sol Plaatje.

Ntongela Masilela is Professor Emeritus of English and World Literature and Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies at Pitzer College, California. From 1995 to 2008 he was Adjunct Professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California in Irvine. He recently relocated from Los Angeles to Bangkok, Thailand.