LANGA, a study of social groups in an african township

ix + 190pp., illus., maps, paperback, cover worn to front and creases, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, (1963) 1973 From the dust wrapper: “Africans have been in Cape Town for 100 years. What sort of social groups have been formed in Langa, the best-known African suburb of Cape Town? These findings will interest both the general reader and the anthropologist… This book describes the distinctions drawn by the people themselves between townsmen and migrants, and the way in which some migrants are absorbed, while others are not… The authors finish their study thus: Something new is growing in towns; its mark is the intense vitality, the aliveness, that appears in dance and song, in the jiving of the ikhaba and the Merry-Macs band, in the irrepressible humour of the townees, and in a flexible, changing language.”