Gerard Sekoto 'I am an African'

A biography of Gerard Sekoto by N Chabani Manganyi. Foreword by Es'kia Mphahlele. Softcover, 244 pages, colour plates and black and white illustrations. An excellent copy. 'Gerard Sekoto is a major South Afrcian painter and one of this country's earliest modernists and social realists. He was at the height of his creative powers when he left for Paris in 1947, where he stayed until his death in 1993....Chabani Manganyi's biography is informed by the discovery, after Sekoto's death, of a 'suitcase of treasures', which contained previously unknown musical compositions, letters and a large quantity of notes, writings and private documents' (taken from back cover).