Mtshali (Oswald Joseph) Sounds of a Cowhide Drum.

Poems… Foreword by Nadine Gordimer
Johannesburg, Renoster Books, 1971.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.

A notable work in the history of the anti-apartheid movement, produced at a time when most authors associated with the movement were banned or exiled. Mtshali, who at the time worked as a messenger in Johannesburg, has since been credited with spawning the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. Jensma was a significant and troubled South African artist and poet whose own work is now keenly collected.