Renewal Time

RENEWAL TIME marked the odyssey and return of Es'kia Mphahlele, a remarkable South African man of letters, at a remarkable moment in South African history. Exiled in the 1950s, he wrote the classic account of a black man's coming of age in South Africa, Down Second Avenue. Plays, novels, stories and essays followed. During his twenty years of travelling widely in Africa, Europe and the United States, Mphahlele also took a special role as a teacher and editor, identifying and fostering new Africa