cover image: Retired scholar Robert D. Vassen talks about his upbringing in South Africa and his involvement in African National Congress

Retired scholar Robert D. Vassen talks about his upbringing in South Africa and his involvement in African National Congress

2005

Robert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962, joined the illegal military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Forced into exile in London in 1964, Vassen says he continued to be an active member of the ANC and edited "Letters From Robben Island: a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989."
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Authors

Vassen, Robert, 1937

Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Contributor
Limb, Peter Metzler, John D. (John David) 1949 Michigan State University. African Studies Center Vincent Voice Library
Dates
1948-1994
Place Discussed
South Africa England London Michigan East Lansing
Provider
Michigan Service Hub
Published in
South Africa
Rights
In Copyright
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/4a4a210cc592133a5b1b0935952e9b34

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