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Written out the silencing of Regina Gelana Twala

"This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini), shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident"--

Main Author: Cabrita, Joel, 1980- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Twala, Regina G., > 1908-1968.
Anthropologists > Eswatini > Biography.
Social workers > South Africa > Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists > Eswatini > Biography.
Anti-apartheid activists > South Africa > Biography.
South Africa > Social conditions > 20th century.
Eswatini > Social conditions > 20th century.
Eswatini > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Biographies.
Summary: "This biography of Twala, an unjustly neglected Black African literary figure in apartheid South Africa and colonial Swaziland (now Eswatini), shows that her posthumous obscurity has been no accident"--
Physical Description: xx, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780821425077
0821425072
Author Notes: Joel Cabrita is Susan Ford Dorsey Director of the Center for African Studies and an associate professor of African history at Stanford University, and a senior research associate in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg. Her work focuses on religion, gender, and the politics of knowledge production in Africa and globally. She is the author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church and The People's Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement.

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