Search Results: blame me on history by modisane bloke 1923 1986

Minor rubbing. Name on flyleaf. VG. In a rubbed dustwrapper., dustwrapper. African Literary History Thames & Hudson London (1963) orig.cloth 22x14cm, 311 pp. Autobiography. ["William Modisane better known as Bloke Modisane was a South African writer, actor and journalist. He lived in Sophiatown. His father was murdered and his sister died of malnutrition. To make ends meet,his mother ran a shebeen. He joined Drum magazine as a journalist and became one of the Drum Boys during Drum's halcyon days in the 1950s...,.He tried to facilitate non-racial progress in the arts by making concerts and theatre available to Black audiences and tried to further the efforts of the Arts Federation and the Union of South African Artists both of which were non-racial. He wrote a number of short stories which were published in Drum. One such story The Situation derived from the Tsotsitaal (slang) for educated Blacks who rose above their station (i.e. situated above their station) but don't really fit into… Read More