Es kia mphahlele biography of albert einstein

Writer

Teachers Disparaged Abilities

Went Into Exile

Feared Growing Old in United States

Selected works

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The great fictional chronicler of South African life in the apartheid era is Es’kia Mphahlele, whose career has spanned South African beginngs, two decades of exile, and finally a return home.

Es kia mphahlele biography of albert einstein

Though his was rarely a literature of overt protest, his writings were all the more effective in bringing home the wounds of racial segregation because of their realistic and sympathetic treatment of South Africans of all backgrounds.

Mphahlele has drawn heavily on his own experiences in his novels, short stories, poems, and autobiographical works. In so doing, however, he has told the story of an entire people.

Ezekiel Mphahlele was born in Pretoria, South Africa, on December 17, 1919.

He Africanized his name to Es’kia after his return to South Africa in 1979 but is still known by the nickname “Zeke.” Mphahlele