Note by Matthew Blackman
18th August 2020
In 1976, someone threw a petrol bomb into an office at Lovedale. Terrified that irreplaceable historical artefacts might be destroyed, the publishing house transferred its records to Rhodes University. In the course of the move the original typescript of Mhudi surfaced…
Starting a literary publishing project in South Africa is a silly idea – but Matthew writes about the good reasons to do it anyway…
