Es’kia Mphahlele, Anti-Apartheid Writer and Academic, Dies at 88

Es’kia Mphahlele, one of South Africa’s most prominent anti-apartheid writers and academics, has died at the age of 88.

During the 1950’s Mphahlele became more involved in politics and joined the ANC but quickly became disenfranchised with the party and by 1957 he was living in exile in Nigeria where he taught at a Church Mission Society. Over the next 20 years he lived away from South Africa, traveling to Kenya, Zambia, France and the United States.

In 1977 Mphahlele returned to South Africa where he became the University of Witwatersrand’s first black professor and established the African Literature Department at the school.

As a writer Mphahlele was highly praised for his 1959 autobiography Down Second Avenue in which he detailed the first 40 years of his life.

In 1994 Mphahlele was presented with the Order of the Southern Cross by Nelson Mandela.

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