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'Speak, Memory, Speak' is primarily concerned with Azaria J.C. Mbatha's life prior to his emigration to Sweden in 1965. We describe this work, 'Speak, Memory, Speak', a collection of Azaria Mbatha' stories, at this stage is 'construed or idiosyncratic personal histories'. The stories are auto-ethnographic too, because Azaria J.C. Mbatha has adopted elements of the colonizers' ideologies, whose first language is African, yet have adopted the occupier's language - English to engrave his story in the occupied country. Mbatha is one of the colonized subjects, undertaking to characterize himself...

Azaria Mbatha is one of South Africa's most important contemporary artists in the last century. This autobiography is rooted in the traditional Zulu heritage of his childhood and the tenets of Christianity imparted by his father. Mbatha weaves his own history into the history of his family, into the history of South Africa and into the history of his time, as he experienced it. The book is a vehicle for Mbatha's spiritual, political and social commentary, and it reflects issues of the author's personal involvement in historical, religious and existential themes. Mbatha writes under a strong...