Eskia Mphahlele
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OPINION| Black writers and publishers are South Africa’s ‘linguistic orphans’
The challenges we face in the world of scholarly and leisure reading and writing are not unique to our country but it is crucial to overcome them if we want to be as good as we…
Workshop of the mind
A new book collects the writing of South Africa’s literary lion, Es’kia Mphahlele. In this edited extract from one essay, he describes how reading books enriched him as a writer.