Es'kia Mphahlele
South African novelist and essayist who chronicled the lives of Black South Africans under apartheid with autobiographical honesty. Down Second Avenue is a classic of South African memoir and protest literature.
Works
- Down Second AvenueAutobiographical memoir of a South African writer's childhood under apartheid and racial oppression
- The African ImageEssay collection on African art, literature, and cultural identity by South African intellectual
- In Corner B
- ChirunduNovel set in colonial Zambia exploring the psychological toll of British imperial rule on Africans
- Father Come Home
- The WanderersNovel about African intellectuals caught between tradition and Western modernity in post-colonial cities
- Afrika My Music
- Voices in the Whirlwind