ALEX LA GUMA

For aficionados of the works of the late South African writer, Alex La Guma, they can easily point to his accomplished works of fiction or prose - A walk in the night, And a Threefold chord, The Stone-Country, In the Fog of the Season’s End, A Soviet Journey, and Time of the Butcherbird.

But this is only a small part of the story, as it were. Alex was a scion of a remarkable family of “coloured” activists from the western Cape. His first work, A walk in the night was initially published far away in Nigeria (by Mbari). Alex La Guma went on to spend many years in exile, and live in, or visit many countries around the world. His legacy as an excellent writer is assured, though.


Studies:

Alex La Guma by Cecil Anthony Abrahams 

Alex La Guma : politics and resistance by Nahem Yousaf 

The novels of Alex La Guma : the representation of a political
conflict by Kathleen M Balutansky

Alex la Guma : a literary & political biography by Roger Field 

Liberation Chabalala : the world of Alex La Guma 

Alex La Guma : the literary and political functions of marginality in
the colonial situation by Abdul R JanMohamed

Aleks La Guma by Stanislav Petrovich Kartuzov

Alex La Guma : the man and his work by S. O Asein