Christopher Mlalazi, award-winning novelist, was inspired by the stories he was told by his grandparents as a child.
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Western critics hailed the 1952 book as a great work of African fantasy. In fact it’s better understood as a pioneering work of African science fiction.
His life’s work was asserting the humanity and history of the Bantu people, while proposing that the soul was able to bring knowledge of the past and of the future into the present.
