Call Me Not a Man

by Mtutuzeli Matshoba

198p orange card cover, joints and cover slightly creased, ownership inscription to half-title but otherwise a very good copy, pages clean and fresh

Genres: South Africa

Paperback

First published April 18, 1995

Reviews

[Wade · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is an invaluable look into the lives of subjugated masses in South Africa and how difficult it was to even secure a home in the terrible townships/imijondolo. The writing of it is disappointingly very Western, and Matshoba uses figures of speech from Greek mythology, Christian mythology and general phrases straight out of the /English/ English language. Such was the writing of the mentally and physically colonised, and so it is interesting still to read into these aspects of writing like this.