Es’kia Mphahlele
… Maseru. Returning to South Africa a year later, he found work with Drum magazine , where at various stages he held the … destroy him. He devoted himself to literature and cultural work, eschewing hard politics. Soft-spoken, humble, urbane, … ubuntu, Es’kia Mphahlele embodied in his person and in his work what he described as “the personification of the African …