Eskia Mphahlele

Eskia Mphahlele (1919-1982) was a South African writer and educationist. He exiled himself from South Africa. He is known for unpopular antinegritude stance.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Maybe the greatest challenge here (in South Africa), even more than the racism, is the mediocrity, the inanity, that keeps coming at you. There are various dodges and on-and-off switches one can operate to deal with racism: its stark, visible, etc mediocrity is sump'n else. I'm learning to keep my cool in its presence, because to rave and rail and shout only breeds ulcers. But damn it, it may be, indeed I believe it is, something that one can deal with better than the more complex, barbed-wire tangle the American thing is.

- On the now-dismantled racist society, Exiles and Homecomings

Doris Lessing