“…The struggle of black people inevitably appear in an intensely cultural form because the social formation in which their distinct political traditions are now manifest has constructed the arena of politics on ground overshadowed by centuries of metropolitan capitalist development, thereby denying them recognition as legitimate politics. Blacks conduct a class struggle in and through race. The BC of race and class cannot be empirically separated, the class character of black struggles is not a result of the fact that blacks are predominantly proletarian, thought this is true…”- (Frank Talk Staff Writers in ‘Azania Salutes Tosh’ – circa 1981)
front cover:
Tosh by Steve Gordon
back cover:
Kippie by Basil Breakey
If You Want to Know Me by student works from Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (Lovedale Press, 1999)
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This remarkable book is a poetry, fiction, drama and artwork by the students of SOMAFCO, a school run by the ANC for exiles from the fascist apartheid government of in South Africa. Their voices offer a document of Apartheid from the perspective of the young .