Memory is the Weapon (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780796163004)

Donato Francesco Mattera has been celebrated as a journalist, editor, writer and poet. He is also acknowledged as one of the foremost activists in the struggle for a democratic South Africa, and helped to found both the Union of Black Journalists, the African Writer's Association and the Congress of South African Writers. Born in 1935 in Western Native Township (now Westbury) across the road from Sophiatown, Mattera can lay claim to an intriguingly di-verse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins. Yet diversity was hardly being celebrated at that time. In one of apartheid's most infamous actions, the vibrant multicultural Sophiatown was destroyed in 1955 and replaced with the white suburb of Triomf, and the wrenching displacement, can be felt in Mattera's writing.

Author: Don Mattera
ISBN-10: 0796163006
ISBN-13: 9780796163004
Publisher: National Library of South Africa
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2024
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d