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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

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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