“…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
Lovedale Heirloom Collection 2
A beautiful collection of historically significant titles from the Lovedale Press archives.
This box set comes in a Lovedale Press tote bag - the second edition designed by BODYLAND merged the press’ vintage logo and a text that is believed to be the first text published in the isiXhosa language, marking the occasion of the language moving from oral graphic to textual . VOW and BODYLAND seek to continue this legacy from text to embodied artist production.
VOW aims to prevent the doors of Lovedale Press from closure and to ensure that the legacy of the press continues through artistic embodiment . The Lovedale Heirloom Collection was started as a way of bringing books that have been out of print to the wider readership . Along with this VOW established BODYLAND - a residency and mentorship programme in the Tyume Valley, the site of the first isiXhosa printed word in 2024.
Titles in the box set include:
- IQWILI LESIZWE by S.C. Mbelu
- ABAZIBALULEYO NOKUBHALIWEYO NGESINTU by R.H.W. Shepherd
- IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ME – VOICES FROM SOMAFCO
- ITHEMBA LIYAPHILISA by Witness K. Tamsanqa
- UPHUMEZA by A.M. Dikana
- UMZALI WOLAHLEKO by Guybon B. Sinxo