"And ah, how I miss that angriest Angry Young Man, Lewis Nkosi!" Casey "Kid" Motsisi's poignant lament was written in the March 1963 issue of Drum following the departure from South Africa into exile of many of his Drum colleagues, among them Nkosi. Throughout the second half of the 1950s Nkosi had worked for Drum publications in Johannesburg, one among an outstanding pleiad of journalists who made Drum the principal vehicle for African literature in English in South Africa during that period. It was while working for Drum that Nkosi first made his mark as a writer. His name ranks alongside those of Bloke Modisane, Can Themba, Nat Nakasa, Todd Matshikiza, Es'kia Mphahlele, Arthur Maimane, Henry Nxumalo, James Matthews, and Casey Motsisi himself as one of that core group of black South African writers whose works brilliantly record what life was like in the South African townships at the...