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Te Ao Hou, August 1957, Page 55

Durban, ‘the City of Sugar’, where he is befriended by Indians who convert him to Mohammedanism and help him to escape from the Union to Portuguese Mocambique. There he would have stayed and made a new beginning, but an accident to his son in the Johannesburg mines takes him back to that city and his own village for the last time. Mr Lanham goes to great pains to explain as well as describe all major events in Monare's crowded life, and he does it so skilfully that nothing is beyond our understanding and sympathy, though very little is to our liking. He gives us a life-size portrait of the person, who, through no fault of his own, cannot abide by the laws of one social group without breaking those of another. And he underlines a fact we are apt to forget, that nowhere is the clash of two cultures more violent or destructive than in the individual heart. Governor Fitzroy. (Turnbult Library Photograph.)