For my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write. - Lewis Nkosi
" "For my grandmother, Esther Makatini, who washed white people's clothes so that I could learn to write.
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About Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer and journalist, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s.
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No, I'll die of a vaster, deeper, more cruel conspiracy by the ruler of my country who have made a certain knowledge between persons of different races not only impossible to achieve but positively dangerous even to attempt to acquire. They have made contact between the races a cause for profoundest alarm among white citizens.
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