Mhudi
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- ISBN 9781035900855
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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An epic historical romance, Mhudi is the first novel in English to be written by a black South African writer and renowned as one of Africa's most important literary works.
After witnessing the genocide of her tribe, Mhudi wanders the land terrified of encountering enemy warriors until she is suddenly struck by a fear even worse than death; that she is now completely alone.
Upon crossing paths with the tribe's only other known survivor, she finds herself at the centre of an extraordinary story of love, war, and unexpected allies.
Writing in the early twentieth century, Sol T. Plaatje offers an incredible retelling of South Africa's history that refuses to justify the injustice that was endured.
'More than a classic; there is just no other book on earth like it. All the stature and grandeur of the author are in it.' Bessie Head
'Some of the most compelling and celebrated accounts of the early days of apartheid.' Trevor Noah, New York Times
'One of the most remarkable books on Africa by one of the continent's most remarkable writers.' Neil Parsons
Sol T. Plaatje was a writer and politician born in Doornfontein near Boshof, Orange Free State (now Free State Province, South Africa) in 1876.
Plaatje was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress which is known today as the African National Congress (ANC). Throughout his life, he travelled across Europe and North America in order to educate the wider world on the oppression happening in South Africa.
Fluent in over seven languages, he was the first Black writer in South Africa to write a book in English, with his novel Mhudi. While the book was completed in 1920, it was not published until 1930 due to its controversial discussion of colonialism in Africa.
Plaatje died in 1932.
