Table of Contents

Lis of Documents and Extracts; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prelude: Sol Plaatje's Early Life 1876-1899; Part one 1899-1910; 'All we claim is our just dues'; Introduction and Commentary; Selected Writings; Part Two 1910-1923; 'Champion for the cause of our peoples'; Introduction and Commentary; Selected Writings; Part Three 1923-1932; 'A pioneer in literature'; Introduction and Commentary; Selected Writings; Notes; List of Documents and Extracts by; Category; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author

Brian Willan is an honorary research fellow at Rhodes University. A former publisher, he has had a longstanding interest in Sol Plaatje, having edited and introduced the Ravan Press edition of Native Life in South Africa in 1982. This was followed by a biography of Plaatje (1984) and a collection of his writings (1997).