LIE ON YOUR WOUNDS, the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

565pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2019

A collection of approximately 300 letters which Robert Sobukwe, the first President of the Pan Africanist Congress, wrote while in prison on Robben Island ((1960-1969).

Preface by Otua Sobukwe, Robert Sobukwe's granddaughter.

"Sobukwe remains one of the least well understood of the great South African resistance leaders. Hook's meticulously arranged collection offers an intimate portrait of Sobukwe and reveals the extraordinary humanity and principle underlying his distinctive pan-Africanism." Saul Dubow, Magdalene College, Cambridge

"Making public the letters from apartheid's most feared prisoner is a gift to the world." Benjamin Pogrund, author of Sobukwe and Apartheid

Derek Hook is Associate Professor in Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He is the author of (Post)apartheid Conditions and A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial