Footprints: A Black Journalist's Fight Against Apartheid in South Africa and in Exile - Hardcover
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With sharp intellect and warm humor, Lionel Morrison tells the story of the struggle for freedom in South Africa and beyond, revealing the intimate experience of grand geopolitical shifts
Apartheid in South Africa was arbitrary and ferocious―its end is widely celebrated. Yet the monumental difficulties faced by the movement for liberation and the sacrifices made by ordinary yet remarkable individuals have been hidden in the broad sweep of time.
Celebrated journalist Lionel Morrison brings this history to life, honoring his forgotten comrades. He shares memories as a defendant in the Treason Trial and of periods in prison before being forced to flee South Africa as a stow away, meeting leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement, the heady days of pan-African and Asian nationalism, and fighting racism in Britain.
Completed by Liz Morrison after her husband's death, Footprints is an ode to community, truth, and resistance.
Lionel Morrison was a South African journalist and pan-Africanist. Along with 155 others including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, Morrison was tried for treason in 1956. Following his exile from South Africa, he embraced Sukarno's Indonesia, moved to China and was politically active across Africa before returning to Britain. His life's work focused on journalism, trade unionism, and housing activism. He was the first black president of the National Union of Journalists in Britain.
Morrison, Liz: -Liz Morrison was born in England and is white. She was a community worker in the 1960s and a social worker. She has been actively supportive of the anti-apartheid movement for justice in South Africa and is active in supporting Palestine.
Younge, Gary: -Gary Younge is a sociology professor at the University of Manchester. A new edition of his book Who Are We? How Identity Politics Took Over the World was published by Penguin in September.
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