A Native of Nowhere: The Life of Nat Nakasa

by Ryan Brown

Tracing the life of South African writer Nat Nakasa, this biography tells the story of how a quiet, serious African boy growing up in the sleepy coastal city of Durban in the 1940s became part of the generation of outspoken black South African journalists in the 1950s and 1960s. He challenged state-sponsored segregation in that way that only writers can, simply by keeping a detailed record of its existence. On a warm July morning in 1965, he stood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1431405345
• ISBN13: 9781431405343
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Jacana Media
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.2"