Es'kia Mphahlele

Es’kia Mphahlele was a South African writer, educator, and cultural activist whose fiction, essays, and autobiographies helped shape modern African literature. His best-known books include Down Second Avenue, In Corner B, The Wanderers, Chirundu, and Father Come Home. After years of exile, he returned to South Africa and founded the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he became its first Black professor.