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NUMBER 182 OF AN EDITION OF 500, published by Justified Press, 1989, softcover, illustrated, 270 pages, condition: very good.
A celebratory anthology compiled and edited by South African scholar and academic Peter Norman Thuynsma, who was a close mentee and former student of Mphahlele.
The text serves as a Festschrift (a collection of writings in honour of a scholar) celebrating the life, literary excellence, and academic contributions of Es'kia Mphahlele. He is widely revered as the "doyen of African letters" and the father of African Humanism.
It features a collection of critical essays, creative pieces, and personal reflections written by various contemporary scholars and writers. The entries analyze his major literary and philosophical works, such as Down Second Avenue and The African Image.
Published in 1989, the book came out during a pivotal period of South African historyjust a decade after Mphahlele returned from 20 years of political exile, and right before the unbanning of liberation movements and the eventual fall of apartheid.
Es'kia Mphahlele was an iconic South African novelist, essayist, critic, and activist. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968. At the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), he became the institution's first Black professor and founded its landmark Department of African Literature in 1983.
The editor, Peter Thuynsma was a prominent academic who studied under Mphahlele and later became a lifelong champion of his legacy
