Overview
Region
Southern Africa
South Africa
Era
Post-colonial
Language
English
Genre
Essay
About This Work
Essays on Black South African writing, the condition of exile, and African literature in general. Nkosi, one of the Drum magazine generation, writes with wit and precision about being exiled from one's own land.
Literary Significance
One of the important early critical works on African literature; Nkosi was one of the sharpest critics of the Drum generation