AFRICA MY BEGINNING (Banned by Apartheid Government)

36pp. Softcover binding, monochrome composite photograph following copyright page. From the collection of Warren Siebrits, with his bookplate designed by SA artist William Kentridge. Condition: Very good. Light rubbing and spots of slight edgewear to covers. Slight indentation to front cover. Text clean, well bound.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingoapele_Madingoane:

Ingoapele Madingoane (1950 - c. 1998) was a South African poet and activist, and a member of the group of black poets that organized in Soweto during the Black Consciousness Movement. Mbulelo Mzamane called Madingoane one of "the most celebrated, prolific, and representative poets" of that movement, alongside Christopher van Wyk and Fhazel Johennesse.

Madingoane was born in Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg. His best-known poem, "Africa my Beginning”, was first published in 1979 by Johannesburg's Ravan Press (and a year later by Rex Collings, London), which Mzamane called an epic. The authorities banned it within two months, as they did with many other literary works, mostly from Black South Africans. Madingoane performed the poem widely, backed by flutes and drums from Mihloti Black Theatre.

Size: 12mo (19 x 12,4cm)

Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988