Foundational African Writers

By (author): Bhekizizwe Peterson. By (author): Khwezi Mkhize. A scholarly essay collection marking the centenary of four South African writers born in 1919 — Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele. Contributors examine how these figures engaged with colonialism, race, exile, Pan-Africanism and decolonisation across fiction, criticism, journalism and autobiography, arguing for their continued relevance to African and Black diasporic intellectual history.