Mhudi

His novel Mhudi (1930), a story of love and war, is set in the 19th century. The characters are vivid and the style that of a traditional Bantu storyteller (a mixture of song and prose).

…Plaatje and his historical novel Mhudi (1930), have explicitly used Black oral history when writing in English. As literacy spread, a commercial press developed, primarily in English, that was aimed at a Black audience and shaped new generations of writers. Notable were the contributors to the journal Drum, including Nat…