Abstract
The Department of Journalism, Film and Television in
partnership with the UJ Library cordially invite you
to a book discussion with Ryan Brown, the author of
“A Native of Nowhere”
The story of Nat Nakasa who, in a short but vibrant
career as a writer and editor in the 1950s and early ’60s, penned features for the country’s most influential black news magazine, Drum. He became the first black columnist for the Rand Daily Mail and founded a literary journal, The Classic, to publish African writing. By the time he was in his mid-20s, he had written for the New York Times and been invited to Harvard to study journalism.