Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi was a renowned South African writer, literary critic, and journalist who spent 30 years in exile due to apartheid-era restrictions on his work. He is celebrated for his magisterial essays on African literature and his novel 'Mating Birds,' which explores the psychological dimensions of apartheid through a first-person account of a Zulu man on death row. Nkosi was also the first black South African to win a Nieman Fellowship and held various academic posts while living abroad.