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Home and Exile

Lewis Nkosi
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Region

Southern Africa

South Africa

Era

Post-colonial

Language

English

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Essay

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Essays on Black South African writing, the condition of exile, and African literature in general. Nkosi, one of the Drum magazine generation, writes with wit and precision about being exiled from one's own land.

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One of the important early critical works on African literature; Nkosi was one of the sharpest critics of the Drum generation

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Essays on Black South African writing, the condition of exile, and African literature in general. Nkosi, one of the Drum magazine generation, writes with wit and precision about being exiled from one's own land. One of the important early critical works on African literature; Nkosi was one of the sharpest critics of the Drum generation

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