Books/Writings
  • The Collector of Treasures
    (Available New and Used)
  • Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind
    (Available New and Used)
  • A Question of Power
    (Available New and Used)
Bessie Head
1937 – 1986
South African
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Contemporaries
Born 1938Ngugi wa Thiong'o
1906–1949Hassan al-Banna
1893–1958Johannes Strijdom
Born 1944Mongane Serote
1891–1975Haile Selassie I
1918–1981Anwar Sadat
1883–1955José Ortega y Gasset
1909–1972Kwame Nkrumah
1918–1970Gamal Nasser
Born 1937Haile Mengistu
1925–1985Alex La Guma
1899–1976Kazi Islam
1942–1993Chris Hani
1925–1982Ruth First
Born 1944Buchi Emecheta
1951–1990Samuel Doe
1866–1951Robert Broom
Born 1939Breyten Breytenbach
Born 1945Allan Boesak
1932–1973Abebe Bikila
1946–1977Stephen Biko