REVELATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Revelations Weaving together many ideas about reconciliation after war, this novel introduces characters--mostly artists and activists--who, after the liberation of South Africa, try to understand what they fought for and why. At the center of the story is a South African dance troupe that has recently returned from Chile. Broadening the debate, the members of this group report onviolence against native people on another continent andprovide a parallel that enlarges the South African perspective. About the author Mongane Wally Serote is part of the "Township" or "Soweto" poets, a literary group whose members wrote about social action and contributed to the Black Consciousness movement. He was arrested by the apartheid government in 1969 under the Terrorism Act, following which he spent 19 months in solitary confinement. He was later released without charge and went on toearn a fine arts degree at Columbia University in 1979. He is the author of Gods of Our Time, History Is the Home Address, and To Every Birth Its Blood. Author Mongane Wally Serote ISBN 1770098089, 9781770098084 Format Paperback Pages 246 pages