In this first of a two-part interview, the writer, educator and activist who would have celebrated his centenary this year shares how his childhood shaped his sense of place and people.
This is a lightly edited excerpt from Bury Me at the Marketplace: Es'kia Mphahlele and Company. Letters 1943-2006 edited by David Attwell and N Chabani Manganyi (2009, Wits University Press). A version of this interview was published in Looking Through the Keyhole: Dissenting Essays on the Black Experience (1981, Ravan Press).
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