Plaatje’s friends called him a ‘walking library’ because he read extensively and engaged with a wide set of ideas to help form his worldview.
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According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.
The life and work of seminal South African writer, intellectual and politician Sol Plaatje seems more relevant than ever. We look into some of the latest scholarly inquiry.
For black South Africans, the hard lesson was the same as it had been during the Boer war: support for Britain would bring few rewards.
How did Sol Plaatje, a man with only four years of formal schooling, become one of South Africa’s most brilliant and committed public educators?
The centennial publication of Sol Plaatje’s seminal, ‘Native Life’ is a timely reminder of his estimation of intellectual work, in contrast to the current disparagement of ‘clever blacks’.
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Director, Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Nelson Mandela University
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Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York