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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819104703321

Autore

Bundy Colin

Titolo

Govan Mbeki [[electronic resource] /] / Colin Bundy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8214-4459-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Ohio short histories of Africa

Disciplina

968.05

Soggetti

Political prisoners - South Africa

Political activists - South Africa

Electronic books.

South Africa Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2012. First published in North America in 2013 by Ohio University Press."--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: intellectual activist or activist intellectual? -- Home comforts and family histories -- Healdtown and Fort Hare -- Permanent persuader: Mbeki in the Transkei, 1940/1952 -- Township politics: Ladysmith and Port Elizabeth, 1952/1960 -- Mbeki as journalist and author, 1955/1963 -- The road to Rivonia -- Cold comfort: the Robben Island years -- Release, retirement, and a modest revolutionary?

Sommario/riassunto

Govan Mbeki (1910-2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner. Sentenced to life in prison in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela and others, he was sent to the notorious Robben Island prison, where he continued to write even as tension grew between himself, Mandela, and other leaders over the future of the national liberation movement. As