{"title":"On remembering Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe","authors":"Grahame Hayes","doi":"10.1353/trn.2021.0019","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This review article discusses two recent publications dealing with the life and work of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924-1978), namely Lie on Your Wounds: the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (2019), and Pogrund's edited collection Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: new reflections (2019). The article makes a case for the importance of Sobukwe's prison letters in the ongoing scholarship of this neglected figure of the South African political struggle for freedom. The main aim is to retrieve a view of Sobukwe as an intellectual, a deeply engaged political thinker, and a man committed to ethical leadership. Inevitably, Sobukwe's life and ideas also operate as a vehicle for criticising South Africa's post-apartheid leaders' lack of integrity, corrupt practices, and the forgotten promise of alleviating the suffering of the majority of poor people who elected them.","PeriodicalId":45045,"journal":{"name":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Transformation-Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2021.0019","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"AREA STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This review article discusses two recent publications dealing with the life and work of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924-1978), namely Lie on Your Wounds: the prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (2019), and Pogrund's edited collection Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe: new reflections (2019). The article makes a case for the importance of Sobukwe's prison letters in the ongoing scholarship of this neglected figure of the South African political struggle for freedom. The main aim is to retrieve a view of Sobukwe as an intellectual, a deeply engaged political thinker, and a man committed to ethical leadership. Inevitably, Sobukwe's life and ideas also operate as a vehicle for criticising South Africa's post-apartheid leaders' lack of integrity, corrupt practices, and the forgotten promise of alleviating the suffering of the majority of poor people who elected them.