This inspirational collection brings together poetry, novels, songs, and letters that motivated Ahmed Kathrada during his 26 years of imprisonment in Apartheid-era South Africa. Despite the draconian censorship practices and heavily restricted access to the written word at the maximum security prison, Kathrada found strength, hope, and escape in the works of writers such as Bertold Brecht, Mahatma Gandhi, Emily Brontė, and Karl Marx.
"Presents extracts from poetry, novels, songs, sayings and letters which Kathrada secretly transcribed and treasured as he served his life sentence, with Nelson Mandela, mainly in South Africa's notorious Robben Island Maximum Security Prison"--P. 4 of cover.Sahm Venter is a writer, an editor, and a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg who has worked for both South African and international media since 1981.
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