South African literary cultural nationalism - abalobi besizwe emzansi 1918-45: returning to the source

This text is an intellectual history that uses Amílcar Cabral's theory of the 'return to the source,' to examine Sol Plaatje's Mhudi, B.W.

Vilakazi's poetry, and A.C. Jordan's 'The Wrath of the Ancestors' within the broader context of African cultural nationalisms in the early twentieth century African Atlantic World.

It shows the development of the idea of African equality with Whites in the face of prevailing ideas of White supremacy during Union-era South Africa.

These authors were part of the New African Movement, which was one of eight literary movements among Africans and peoples of African descent in the Americas between 1915 and 1945.