The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

Experiencing Sophiatown, edited by David Thelen and Karie L Morgan

The names Sophiatown and Triomf evoke images of a storied and unique place in South African history. Here was the world-renowned, multiracial birthplace of modern urban African arts, like jazz and poetry. Here too, the new National Party government put residential apartheid into practice in the 1950s by forcibly removing some 65 000 residents. Bulldozing buildings, replacing them with cheap housing and renaming the place Triomf. This book shares the experiences among the residents about the past, present and future of a community.

Access: https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/871245262

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.