Soweto Speaks - Johnson and Magubane ( Signed by Jill Johnson) NB: ON HOLD fo buyer bochimans4

PLEASE NOTE This book is currently on hold for buyer bochimans4. Please do not order if you are not he. 

Hardback with DJ. AD Donker First edition 1979. 180 pages. 21 x 25.5cm

some very minor rubs to DJ and cover but generally in very good condition for its age. Signed on half title page by author Jill Johnson. (see pics below). Please feel free to ask questions.

" Crime, marxism, advertising, big business, shebeens, abandoned babies, blindness, teaching, politics, Black Consciousness, theatre, art, writing, all these are facets of life in Soweto, Johannesburg's black dormitory city, home of over one million people.

In Soweto Speaks individual Sowetans speak frankly to Jill Johnson, giving vivid accounts of thei day-to-day lives and the issues which affect them, from the political views of leaders such as Dr Motlanan to the attitudes and activities of ordinary people from different walks of life: doctor, housewife, actor, domestic worker - even tsotsi.

Jill Johnson links together these interviews, giving a brief review of the histoy of the township, setting the scene and providing background information.

Peter magubane's magnificent photographs, often poignant, sometimes brutal, always sensistive, highlight the characters and situations described by the many voices brought together in this book.

The total effect is to give non-Sowetans a unique glimpse of a vibrating, pulsating, complex world where violence, poverty, injustice, crime and despair co-exist with the laughter of children, companionship, compassion and a determination to get on with the business of living, and to work for a better future."

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