1928–2014
Biography · Literature
Es'kia Mphahlele
1919–2008
South Africa
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Mphahlele’s memoir Down Second Avenue described growing up under apartheid, and decades in exile made him an influential mentor to African writers before his return home in 1977.
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1924–1987
1913–2008