First published in 1990, four years before Nelson Mandela assumed the presidency of a democratic South Africa, When Darkness Falls boldly captures the spirit of resistance shown by black South Africans in the face of the brutal apartheid system. It is a book that boldly anticipates a future without apartheid, and which, in moving poetry, tells of a people's determination to live, love, and laugh even under very difficult conditions. Former newspaper editor Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba wrote this stirring book because of his love of poetry and the desire to strike a literary blow against...