Product Description: The collection of stories in "In Corner B" (1967), deal with human relationships and attitudes under the oppressive regime in South Africa but show that black life, through recourse to humour and a common humanity, constantly renews its own initiatives.

Product Description: The essays and public addresses of scholar, teacher, philosopher, and activist Es'kia Mphahlele are presented in this collection spanning 40 years of recent African history. The intellectual and distinctly South African perspective exhibited in these writings is enriched by humor and autobiographical anecdotes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author recounts his return to South Africa in 1976 after twenty years in exile and describes the problems that still face his nation