Es’kia Mphahlele
… in 1949, followed in 1956 by a BA Honours degree and in 1957 by an MA degree (with distinction). He studied for his … for teachers from Nigeria, Mphahlele left South Africa in 1957 together with a number of other African teachers whom … and Can Themba . The autobiographical Down Second Avenue (1957), Mphahlele’s crowning achievement, has been translated …