The Wanderers (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezekiel Mphahlele
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Social chronicle
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: From the late 1950’s to the 1960’s
- Setting: South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya
- 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
Characters Discussed
Timi Tabane (TEE-mee tah- BAH-nay), a black South African journalist who becomes an exile. Tabane, sensitive and idealistic, lives in the slums of Tirong, a black township in South Africa, and writes for the magazine Bongo. In Tirong, he meets Naledi Kubu, a young woman who is convinced that her husband has been murdered at a slave farm labor camp. Risking arrest, Tabane travels with her to investigate the case. After publishing his exposé, Tabane, discouraged by the mild public response and disheartened by the prospects of progress in South Africa,...
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