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About eight out of every ten educated Africans, most of whom are also professed Christians, still believe firmly in the spirits of their ancestors.

— Es'kia Mphahlele Down Second Avenue (1959)

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You’ll come back and be able to look after yourself and the two you’re leaving behind.

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I am an irrepressible teacher, and will teach anywhere I am invited to, as long as I am not asked to play the role of a token nigger.

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We’d never really known father before. And now living close to him and seeing him at close quarters, I realised that his face was unlikeable.

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