Ronald Segal

From the obituary in The Guardian (2008):

"At Cape Town University he majored in English and Latin and learned the raw facts of political life. Trinity College, Cambridge, followed, where he was more influenced by Enid Welsford, tutor in the English moralists, than by FR Leavis. An upper second was a disappointment. A dissertation on Paradise Lost won him a fellowship to the University of Virginia, but he found Charlottesville a 'museum world'. Within six months, in 1956, he was back in Cape Town to launch the magazine Africa South. Politics had won out."

From the book jacket for Islam's Black Slaves (2001):

"South African-born Ronald Segal, former editor and publisher of Africa South, left his country with the African National Congress leader

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