Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi

Can ThembaThe Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography\nAuthor(s): Siphiwo Mahala\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wits University Press, South Africa\nImprint: Wits University Press\nISBN-13: 9781776147311, 978-1776147311\nSynopsis\nMahala's biography gives insight into the life and writing of Can Themba [tel], an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile\n This rich and absorbing biography of Can Themba, iconic Drum-era journalist and writer, is the definitive history of a larger-than-life man who died too young. Siphiwo Mahala's intensive and often fresh research features unprecedented archival access and interviews with Themba's surviving colleagues and family.\n Mahala's biography takes a critical historical approach to Themba's life and writing, giving a picture of the whole man, from his early beginnings in Marabastad to his sombre end in exile in Swaziland. The better-known elements of his life his political view.