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Born in 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal, South Africa, Ben
Magubane would almost certainly have grown up to be a farm worker
had his father not moved the family suddenly to the city of Durban
following a clash with the farm owner. In Durban, the family lived
in the Cato Manor squatter settlement and Magubane began his
education in the Catholic schools that flourished before the
imposition of Bantu Education.In this fascinating autobiography,
Ben Magubane relates how as a child he was radicalised by the
conditions apartheid imposed on the majority of the country's
people. He became a teacher and rubbed shoulders with many of the
country's great educationists, his passion for learning leading him
on to the University of Natal and eventually to the United States
of America, in 1961, for postgraduate studies in the social
sciences.As a critical thinker, Magubane was schooled by eminent
scholars within the liberal-pluralist paradigm, but he migrated
towards an understanding of South African and African history and
sociology through Marxism, a journey that shaped him as a leading
African intellectual.Magubane became closely involved with various
members of the African National Congress in exile, including Oliver
Tambo, and he played a vital role in the anti-apartheid struggle in
the United States and beyond.Ben Magubane is the Director of South
African Democracy Education Trust.
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