This radio essay on writers from #South Africa & #Bloomsbury does a lot to place #SolPlaatje's wonderful book #Mhudi as a visionary and neglected novel (published late 20s, written by 1919) -- he was in London with the South African Native National Congress. It also explains that #Orlando was started after Woolf heard about Vita Sackville-West's affair with Mary Campbell -- and makes me want to read some William Plomer, whose books the Woolfs published. #modernism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Plaatje