African Tragedy: A Novel by Wulf Sachs

African Tragedy is the unknown first version of Wulf Sachs's famous psychobiography Black Hamlet, presented here as an enthralling novel. The text has languished in the colonial archive, virtually unknown, since 1946. This is the story of the Manyikan nganga, John Chawafambira, as the author originally conceived it, a tale of psychic and political struggle in the inhospitable environment of industrialising Johannesburg in the 1930s. Digest this 'new' version and the earlier ones, Black Hamlet (1937) and Black Anger (1947), can never be read as once they were.