Magema Fuze

Description

This book examines the life of Magema Fuze and suggests that kholwa identity was fashioned through the practice of bricolage: the cobbling together, in indeterminate and sometimes contradictory ways, of elements from both colonial and indigenous cultures. The amakholwa used the instruments of cultural imperialism – namely petitions, letters, books, and newspapers – to create a signature resistance to subjugation and conquest. Magema Fuze’s literary life represents a black intellectual tradition whose potential was not realized.