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Klappentext Collection of essays on the South African alternative press from the 1880s to the 1960s. Zusammenfassung This is the first full-length study of the protest-cum-resistance press and its role in the struggle for a democratic South Africa between the 1880s and 1960s. South Africa's alternative press played a crucial! but still largely undocumented role! in the making of modern South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: South Africa's alternative press in perspective Les Switzer; Part I. An Independent Protest Press, 1880s-1930s: 1. The beginnings of African protest journalism at the cape Les Switzer; 2. Qude maniki! John L. Dube, Pioneer Editor of Ilanga Lase Natal R. Hunt Davis Jr; 3. From advocacy to mobilisation: Indian opinion, 1903-1914 Uma Shaskikant Mesthrie; 4. Voice of the coloured élite: APO, 1919-1923 Mohamed Adhikari; 5. Moderate and militant voices in the African nationalist press during the 1920s Les Switzer; 6. Bantu world and the origins of a captive African commercial press Les Switzer; Part II. From Protest to Resistance, 1940s-1960s: 7. Under seige: Inkundla Ya Bantu and the African nationalist movement, 1938-1951 Les Switzer and Ime Ukpanah; 8. The Sophiatown generation: black literary journalism during the 1950s R. Neville Choonoo; 9. Socialism and the resistance movement: the life and times of The Guardian, 1937-1952 Les Switzer; 10. Writing left: the journalism of Ruth First and The Guardian in the 1950s Don Pinnock; 11. Inkululeko: organ of the communist party of South Africa, 1939-1950 Elizabeth Ceiriog Jones.
