The collection of stories in "In Corner B" (1967), deal with human relationships and attitudes under the oppressive regime in South Africa but show that black life, through recourse to humour and a common humanity, constantly renews its own initiatives.

In Corner B

Literature & Fiction

MPHAHLELE, Ezekiel

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Global

MR (I) Down Second Avenue

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Macmillan Readers

Down Second Avenue.

Contemporary

Anchor Books

secondhand copy, rubbing to covers, clipped half title page, else a good copy with clean unmarked text

Voices in the Whirlwind, and Other Essays

Essays & Correspondence

Hill Wang

<p>NY 1972 1st (1). Black South African writer. Hardcover. Octavo, 215pp., boards. VG in VG DJ.</p>

Voices in the Whirlwind and Other Essays

Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto

History

Africa

Peter Smith Pub Inc

Chirundu

Ravan Press

A novel by a South African writer, well known for his autobiography, "Down Second Avenue", that deals with the corruption of a high government official in an independent African country.

Lawrence Hill

Renewal Time: Stories

UNKNO

<p>First published in 1959, Down Second Avenue is Nobel Prize nominee Es'kia Mphahlele's autobiography of his South African childhood and his struggle against discrimination. The memoir tells of Es'kia's childhood in Maupaneng, a small village outside Pietersburg, and Marabastad, a location in Pretoria. Here he showed academic promise. This resulted in a career as a teacher. After a number of years, though, he was barred from teaching because of his vocal opposition to the segregation and discrimination occurring in schools. Mphahlele then worked for Drum magazine in various capacities. The biography culminates in his exile from South Africa in 1957.Down Second Avenue is Mphahlele's personal account of his struggle for identity and dignity in the face of the growing discriminatory policies of the South African government. It is a compelling mix of humour and pathos.Es'ka Mphahlele was born in 1919. He qualified as a teacher at Adam's College in Natal, and from 1945-1952 taught at Orlando High School. He later joined the staff of Drum magazine. Meanwhile, he continued to study part-time and in 1956 was awarded his master's degree by the University of South Africa.In 1957 he left South Africa and would remain in exile until 1977. He lived in Nigeria, Paris and the USA and lectured at various universities as well as serving as director of Congress of Cultural Freedom in Paris. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Denver. After returning to South Africa, Mphahlele joined the University of the Witwatersrand as professor of African Literature. He retired in 1987.Mphahlele was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel "The Wanderers" (1968).</p>

Down Second Avenue

Biographies & Memoirs

Picador Africa

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