Bloke Modisane, ‘Neither White nor Black’, Tribune, April, 13, 1962, Volume 26, Issue 15, pp. 10-11

JB quoted as part of Modisane’s review of The African Image by Ezekiel Mphahlele: ‘the emergence of independent African States, the responsibility of self-determination, bought new conscious-ness to the African; the vital need for rediscovery of himself, a redefinition of his identity — to himself and to the white world which has for so long controlled his image. There is a brutal frankness in James Baldwin’s examination of himself: “Obviously I wasn’t white; it wasn’t so much a question of wanting to be white, and I didn’t quite know what being black meant”.

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