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It‘s amazing how books can make you feel so connected to a person of a different ethnicity, from a different time and place. We really do have more in common than we know.

I finished this during the #readathon but forgot to post a review. This autobiography from South Africa was really interesting, especially the last part of the book which was about his adult life (up to about 35?). He continued to write, and published a second autobiography of his later years, which I'm excited to read. My favorite part was his discussion of the education system under apartheid and his political activity against that system.

My #readathon plans are to finish Down Second Avenue (South African autobiography), Let The Dead Lie (South African murder mystery), and The Division Bell Mystery (1920s British parliamentary mystery). I'm about half way through each going into the readathon.

Down Second Avenue was a thought provoking memoir about the rise of the apartheid regime in South Africa and the hard choices that immigrants have to make every day. #1001books #soundcloud #applepodcasts #googleplay

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Mphahlele is South African writer that I never quite got around to reading despite having several of his books on my shelves for a time. I was even going to do a PhD thesis on South African writers in exile, with him as one of the central foci. This is his autobiography. Maybe now it's finally time!