Down Second Avenue

Name: Down Second Avenue
ISBN: 9780143106791

Es'kia Mphahlele

222 pages · about 4 hours
First published 1959
21 editions

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1 About this book

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Biography
Indigenous peoples
Race relations
Authors, biography
Social life and customs
Apartheid

2 About Es'kia Mphahlele

1919–2008

Es'kia Mphahlele (17 December 1919 – 27 October 2008) was a South African writer, educationist, artist and activist celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and one of the founding figures of modern African literature. He was given the name Ezekiel Mphahlele at birth but changed his name to Es'kia in 1977. His journey from a childhood in the slums of Pretoria to a literary icon was an odyssey both intellectually and politically.

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