Azanian Love Song
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Azanian Love Song

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Azanian Love Song

About this book

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 diverse lineage: his paternal grandfather was Italian, and he has Tswana, Khoi-Khoi and Xhosa blood in his veins.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. About Don Mattera
  6. Introduction
  7. Previous publications
  8. Blood River
  9. Day of thunder
  10. Sophiatown
  11. I feel a poem
  12. The Day they came for our House
  13. Submission
  14. Fall
  15. I saw a man
  16. Demented
  17. Ashamed
  18. Protea
  19. Vietnam
  20. Friday night
  21. On a man hanging
  22. Let the children decide
  23. Mine workers’ song
  24. Black plum
  25. Man to man
  26. At least
  27. For a cent
  28. The sun has died
  29. Cry of Cain
  30. Departure
  31. Sowing and Reaping
  32. Futility
  33. Gelvandale
  34. Weave
  35. Degrees
  36. Lament
  37. Weekend
  38. Quest
  39. Strange rhythm
  40. Limitation
  41. I am not there
  42. Blackness blooms
  43. Journey
  44. Burning train
  45. Offering
  46. Fallen fruit
  47. Truth
  48. And yet
  49. After the flowering
  50. I watched
  51. You would know
  52. No time, Black man
  53. They think us happy
  54. Comparison
  55. Expectation
  56. Embryo
  57. Even I
  58. Remember
  59. Final hour
  60. Child
  61. Old woman
  62. The poet must die
  63. Do you remember
  64. Of reason and discovery
  65. Tokologo
  66. Contamination
  67. Mystery
  68. I am
  69. First victim
  70. At the mortuary
  71. Heat of our chains
  72. If we seek to be free
  73. Azanian Love Song
  74. No children
  75. Curfew
  76. A new time
  77. I stood
  78. Sobukwe
  79. I am infinite
  80. I sing
  81. Dry your eyes
  82. Shadows deepen
  83. Ordeal
  84. Sea and sand
  85. Sea of shadows
  86. New vision
  87. Dying ground
  88. Singing fools
  89. Deluge
  90. Softly
  91. Morning
  92. Your gift
  93. Kumbaya
  94. Elegy for Beirut
  95. Freedom Fighters
  96. Sometimes
  97. Giovanni
  98. Our sons, our daughters
  99. Zimbabwean Love Song
  100. Bitter seed
  101. Salute the warrior
  102. Namibian Love Song
  103. A gift of words
  104. I am nothing
  105. Exiles
  106. I will think of you
  107. A Song for Mandela
  108. We have been here before
  109. Back cover