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Book cover of A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island

A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island

by Sahm Venter

Publisher: Jacana Media
Pages: 136
Paperback
ISBN: 9781770091245

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Overview of A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island

This inspirational collection brings together poetry, novels, songs, and letters that motivated Ahmed Kathrada during his 26 years of imprisonment in Apartheid-era South Africa. Despite the draconian censorship practices and heavily restricted access to the written word at the maximum security prison, Kathrada found strength, hope, and escape in the works of writers such as Bertold Brecht, Mahatma Gandhi, Emily Brontë, and Karl Marx.

Synopsis of A Free Mind: Ahmed Kathrada's Notebook from Robben Island

This inspirational collection brings together poetry, novels, songs, and letters that motivated Ahmed Kathrada during his 26 years of imprisonment in Apartheid-era South Africa. Despite the draconian censorship practices and heavily restricted access to the written word at the maximum security prison, Kathrada found strength, hope, and escape in the works of writers such as Bertold Brecht, Mahatma Gandhi, Emily Brontë, and Karl Marx.

About the Author, Sahm Venter

Sahm Venter is a writer, an editor, and a freelance journalist based in Johannesburg who has worked for both South African and international media since 1981.

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