H. I. E. Dhlomo Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of H. I. E. Dhlomo.

H. I. E. Dhlomo Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 12 pages of information about the life of H. I. E. Dhlomo.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on H. I. E. Dhlomo

H. I. E. Dhlomo is currently seen as an important black poet and as one of the pioneers of black theater in South Africa with an early play concerning the nineteenth-century Ama-Xhosa cattle killing, The Girl Who Killed to Save (Nongquase the Liberator) (1935). His short stories reflect a deep understanding of black South African customs and offer a challenging black perspective on the politics and psychology of what was, at the time they were written, a white-dominated South Africa.

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo was born 26 February 1903 near Pietermaritzburg in Natal Province (now KwaZulu-Natal). He studied to be a teacher at the Amamzimtoti Training Institute (later Adams College) from 1922 to 1924. After qualifying he taught for a while, then later turned to librarianship; to journalism, sometimes using the pseudonym "Busy Bee"; and to newspaper editing. For most of his life Dhlomo was involved in creative writing in the genres of...

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