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Culture of struggle: Diturupa troupes in Makapanstad celebrate the role of black soldiers in the first and second world wars. (Photos: Lucas Styles Ledwaba)

Review: ‘Culture and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa’: On the arts as a catalyst in the quest for true freedom

This new collection of essays, tributes and analyses focuses on the role of culture in the fostering of radical consciousness

Gaongalelwe Tiro

Writer Sol Plaatje ‘constantly exploded the image created of him’. (SOAS Archives, University of London)

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Sol Plaatje and the antinomies of writing against ‘South Africa’

The renowned author’s foundational anti-colonial work deserves more than a dogmatic reading

V Njabulo Zwane