'Pule Lechesa
(above) is increasingly becoming synonymous with robust,
fecund
African literary criticism and patent awareness of the same,
straddling
both autochthonous and Eurocentric textual banks.
His
accretion of essays in this wise have been published in works like
Four Free
State Authors, Essays on Free State Black Literature, Bolaji
in his Pomp,
The Awesome Literary Legacy of Dr K.P.D Maphalla, and
The Queens
of the firsts…legendary female Sesotho writers.
This new
work contains a tantalizing selection of Mr Lechesa’s
writings in
this wise over the years, with the added bonus and nous
of his very
recent essays and analyses. Many pundits have pointed out
that they
exhilaratingly discern a nigh unique essayistic saunter in the
author’s
writings, and so it is here, as the literary/stroke/intellectual
striations
and revelation undulate...'
- blurb
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