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Returning Home - Lewis Nkosi
Conversation with Lewis Nkosi, South African journalist, writer and professor of literature, November 1999
Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of literature in various African and European countries as well as in the USA. Living in exile since 1960, he resided in Basel between 1997 and 2010. On 11th November 1999 he gave a reading from his novels at the BAB. In this extract of the ensuing conversation, he talks about his identity as a writer and the experience of arriving in exile in London in 1960 and returning to South Africa in 1991.
The following book is available in the bookshop of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien:
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By Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) - Namibia Resource Centre & Southern Africa LibraryConversation with Lewis Nkosi, South African journalist, writer and professor of literature, November 1999
Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), born in Embo (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa), was an acclaimed journalist, writer and professor of literature in various African and European countries as well as in the USA. Living in exile since 1960, he resided in Basel between 1997 and 2010. On 11th November 1999 he gave a reading from his novels at the BAB. In this extract of the ensuing conversation, he talks about his identity as a writer and the experience of arriving in exile in London in 1960 and returning to South Africa in 1991.
The following book is available in the bookshop of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien: