His autobiography The Way Home is an account of the travails of life in exile
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Oppressive conditions lead to various responses among those at the receiving end. For example, opposition to apartheid often led to prison and, not infrequently, a death sentence or extrajudicial execution.
Under apartheid, opposition to unjust laws was flirting with imprisonment or death. It can, however, also be said without fear of contradiction or exaggeration that exile is a form of imprisonment. Writer Es’kia Mphahlele was similarly driven by the alienation that exile induces. His return in 1977 was greeted by ferocious criticism from those who felt he had betrayed the cause by coming home before democracy was achieved.
His country of birth had similarly been thrust into a metaphorical head spin. The apartheid system had been formally defeated but more mountains remained to be climbed, as Letta Mbulu warns in her songIn this regard, it is worth remembering no achievement in life is a final, unalterable destination but a stepping stone to elevated satisfaction. All phenomena in nature are in a continuous state of change and growth.
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