Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-209) and index.
Contents:
The heart goes after whom it loves / Sabata-Mpho Mokae. Sol Plaatje's Mafeking pen and a new imagining of the Anglo-Boer War / Bill Nasson -- Writing under siege: reading Plaatje's Mafeking diary 120 years later / Kevin Davie -- The missing pages / Siphiwo Mahala -- The music of 'Au Sanna' / Laurence Wright -- The personal thoughts of two black Britons? Comparing Sol Plaatje's dairy with Tiyo Soga's journal / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- 'Part of a longer story': the sieges of Mafeking 1882 and 1899-1900 compared / Andrew Manson -- The interpreter / Andries Walter Oliphant -- Sol Plaatje's diary and African views of the Pax Britannica / Stephen Volz -- Past and present in Sol Plaatje's Mafeking dairy: the making of a diarist / Brian Willan -- The Mafeking dairy of Sol Plaatje and the history of literary journalism in South Africa / Lesley Mofokeng -- The heart goes after whom it loves / Sabata-Mpho Mokae.
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