Vignettes of a South African Township called Mdantsane

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Mdantsane Breathing - Celebrating Mdantsane

Mdantsane Breathing is my latest book, a coffee table hard cover lavishly illustrated poetry book which is first of its kind describing in poetry and watercolors the vibrant culture of Mdantsane which is the second biggest township after Soweto.
The world knew about the Soweto Uprising, the Sowetan Poets and Winnie Mandela who still lives there.
The popular news paper The Sowetan remains a mark of courage during the apartheid times and after.
But nobody wrote about Mdantsane and its heroic participation against the apartheid government.
This book brings to you for the first time of a strange life that insists to be told and that persists within all of us who were witness of those struggle days.
A poem and water color of Siviwe is on the jacket flap of this book
Siviwe is a former soldier of Umkhonto We Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress.
The book is dedicated to the brave people of Mdantsane.

Wikipedia -About Mdantsane


Mdantsane Breathing
Publisher - Poets Printery, South Africa
ISBN - 978-0-620-46040-8
Price - Rand 760 including postage


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6 comments:

  1. It is getting better and better everyday!
    Congrats!
    Reminds me of early Monet and Van Gogh.
    Expecting more colourful and brilliant works in future.
    Sunil

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  2. Thanks Sunilbhai
    Poetry is all about colors and more colors

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  3. ALL LOOKS GOOD.
    AND GLAD TO HEAR SOME GOOD THINGS ABOUT MDANTSANE.

    RAJ

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  4. Breathing Colors...

    Whispering poetry...
    A great conglomeration....

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