The Wanderers (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezekiel Mphahlele
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Social chronicle
- Time of Work: From the late 1950’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya
- Principal Characters: Timi Tabane, Felang, Karabo, Steven Cartwright, Sheila Shulameth, Naledi Kubu, Rampa Kubu, Kofi Awoonor, Emil
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Postcolonial literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Family or family life, Africa or Africans, Journalism or journalists, Blacks, Race, Murder or homicide, Slavery or slaves, Exile or expatriates, Death or dying, South Africa or South Africans, Humanism, Civil wars, Nigeria or Nigerians
- Locales: South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya
The Novel
The Wanderers is a loosely plotted, autobiographical novel, in which author Ezekiel Mphahlele, through the protagonist Timi Tabane, continues the story of his life from the point at which his autobiography Down Second Avenue (1959) ends. Down Second Avenue describes Mphahlele’s years in the black townships and urban ghettos of South Africa, but The Wanderers concentrates on the period of exile in Nigeria and Kenya that followed his escape from South Africa in 1957.
Despite the obvious parallels between Mphahlele’s experience and the...
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