Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Author

Derek Hook is Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh and Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. He edited the first volume of Sobukwe letters, Lie on Your Wounds: The prison correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.   Leswin Laubscher is Associate Professor in the Clinical Psychology department at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. He is Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is the co-editor of Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology.  Robert Sobukwe founded the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania in 1959 and was its first president. He was imprisoned on Robben Island from 1960-1969, mostly in solitary confinement, and was considered such a threat by the government that its parliament enacted the ‘Sobukwe clause’, which authorised the arbitrary extension of his imprisonment. After his release in 1969, he lived in Kimberley with family under house arrest. He died in 1978 from lung cancer.