Reading Sachs: Black Hamlet on Trial

Wulf Sachs’s Black Hamlet, his searing account of the struggles of a Manyikan nganga (diviner and healer), John Chawafambira, to survive in the maelstrom of 1930s industrializing Johannesburg, exis...

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ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews
Published
2026-08-24
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https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769x.2026.2723207
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South African History and Culture
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Reading Sachs: Black Hamlet on Trial

Laurence Wright
ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews
South African History and Culture
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Reading Sachs: Black Hamlet on Trial

Laurence Wright
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Wulf Sachs’s Black Hamlet, his searing account of the struggles of a Manyikan nganga (diviner and healer), John Chawafambira, to survive in the maelstrom of 1930s industrializing Johannesburg, exis...

ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews
University of the Humanities (MN)
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South African History and Culture
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