A landmark anthology of Black South African writing spanning ninety years, Reconstruction gathers essays, fiction, reportage and cultural criticism from the late nineteenth century through the height of apartheid.

Edited by Mothobi Mutloatse and published by the politically significant Ravan Press in 1981, the collection documents intellectual resistance, literary experimentation, and the shifting language of liberation. It draws from newspapers, magazines, speeches, and creative work that shaped Black public thought in South Africa long before and during apartheid.

A substantial historical document as much as a literary anthology.