5/26/2023 0 Comments Maru by bessie head audiobookIn 1964, she left South Africa for a teaching job in Bechuanaland Protectorate, in a village called Serowe. After stints at few newspapers and magazines, she began her own newspaper, The Citizen, which promoted Pan-African views. In June of 1958, she resigned to become a journalist in Durban. She immediately began teaching at the Clairwood Coloured School in Durban. In January 1956, at age 18, Bessie received a teaching certificate. As a result of her mixed-race status, she suffered greatly from discrimination by Africans. Her mother was a Scottish woman and her father was an unknown Black South African. I did a search and found numerous websites devoted to this important African writer.īessie Head was born on July 6, 1937, in Natal. I had never heard of Bessie, but something in Walker’s description piqued my curiosity. Most of the time, books and authors mentioned in novels are as fictional as the rest of the story. In this novel, she mentions an African writer Bessie Head. I recently reviewed the great Alice Walker novel, Temple of my Familiar.
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