Afrika My Music

Name: Afrika My Music
Author: Es'kia Mphahlele

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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.

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