Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.
South African writer, professor, and activist Es'kia (Ezekiel) Mphahlele (who lived from 17, December, 1919, to 27, October, 2008) is considered the Dean of African Letters and a seminal figure in modern African literature. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Mphahlele wrote his memoir, Down Second Avenue, while in exile. Depicting vividly the oppression and injustices of the black experience under Apartheid, it became a South African classic.
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