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Bringing the ‘Native of Nowhere’ home

Published on 18/08/2014

Homesick yet forbidden to return home, Nat Nakasa died alone in New York, aged 29. Forty-nine years later his remains are returning to be reburied near his hometown, as South Africa remembers his transcendental writing, his bid to have black voices heard, and his dark, pathos-laden humour.