Amandla is a 1980 historical fiction novel by the South African writer Miriam Tlali.
In this revolt, young people from Soweto (a Johannesburg suburb) rose up against the decision to make Afrikaans compulsory as a means of teaching in black schools.
[1] Published in 1980 by the South African anti-apartheid publisher Ravan Press, Amandla was the second English-language novel written by a black woman in apartheid South Africa.
The others are Mongane Serote's To Every Birth its Blood (1981), Sipho Sepamla's A Ride on the Whirlwind (1981), and Mbulelo Mzamane's The Children of Soweto (1982).
Based on Tlali's experience as a Soweto resident in 1976, the novel depicts the uprising and its aftermath.