Blame Me on History
Born in Johannesburg, which he left in 1958, BLOKE MODISANEwas a reporter and feature writer, as well as theater and music critic, for DRUM Publications, a white-owned company sympathetic to Africans. As an actor he had a part, in the play NO GOOD FRIDAYand the secretly made film COME BACK AFRICA.In England he has appeared in a number of stage and television productions, and in the United States he has lectured on African music and literature. The article which follows has been drawn from his bitter, moving autobiography, which will be published shortly by Dutton.