02747oam 22005534a 450 991077954520332120170821163924.00-8214-4459-X(CKB)2550000001039181(EBL)1743639(OCoLC)832313956(SSID)ssj0000854583(PQKBManifestationID)11424628(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000854583(PQKBWorkID)10902753(PQKB)10334386(MiAaPQ)EBC1743639(MdBmJHUP)muse26766(EXLCZ)99255000000103918120130109e20132012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGovan Mbeki[electronic resource] /Colin BundyAthens, Ohio Ohio University Press20131 online resource (169 p.)Ohio short histories of Africa"First published by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2012. First published in North America in 2013 by Ohio University Press."--T.p. verso.0-8214-2046-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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? 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. AsOhio short histories of Africa.Political prisonersSouth AfricaBiographyPolitical activistsSouth AfricaBiographySouth AfricaPolitics and government20th centuryElectronic books. Political prisonersPolitical activists968.05Bundy Colin243042MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910779545203321Govan Mbeki3717162UNINA