ISLAM’S BLACK SLAVES (Presentation copy signed by the author)

The other black diaspora

First edition: 273 pages, foxing on the page edges, mustard cloth boards with a brown cloth spine, titled gilt on the spine, a good copy in the dust jacket.

The inscription on the half title page reads: For Vishnu with very best wishes Ronald Segal Durban August 2003.

Ronald Michael Segal was a South African activist, writer and editor, founder of the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South and the Penguin African Library. He was born on 14 July 1932, and was educated at Sea Point Boys' High School. After failing to gain entry to Oxford University, he studied at Cape Town University and then Trinity College, Cambridge. Returning to South Africa in 1956, he founded the anti-apartheid magazine Africa South. After the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre he went into exile with Oliver Tambo, and settled in England, continuing his anti-apartheid political activity and pursuing activity as a writer. After Segal was unbanned from South Africa, he visited the country several times, receiving a hero’s welcome on stage alongside Mandela, Tambo and Slovo in 1992. He died on 23 February 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Segal