biography
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Mphahlele, Es'kia
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popular name of Ezekiel Mphahlele
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pronunciation:
[mpahlaylay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, autobiographer, and critic, born in Pretoria, South Africa. His ghetto childhood bulks large in his autobiography, Down Second Avenue (1959). He spent the years 1957 to 1978 in Nigeria, France, Kenya, Zambia, and the USA. By the time he published a second volume of autobiography, Afrika My Music (1984), he had also written four volumes of short stories and three novels. His influential criticism includes The African Image (1962), a pioneering analysis of African literature in its political context. He returned to South Africa in 1978. |
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