Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa

by Jacob Dlamini

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one's commitment to one's freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to think of the right to life when a political demand for dignity and honor might be more important than life itself?

Dying for Freedom explores these questions by drawing on archival evidence from South Africa to show how death and conflicting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509561080
• ISBN13: 9781509561087
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"