PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mphahlele, Ezekiel
TI  - The Language of African Literature
AID  - 10.17763/haer.34.2.r10t2526l7561278
DP  - 1964 Jul 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 298--305
VI  - 34
IP  - 2
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/298.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/34/2/298.full
SO  - herp1964 Jul 01; 34
AB  - Talking enthusiastically about her visit to Europe, a leading African woman in South Africa said to a group of listeners a few years ago, "The role of the woman in Europe fascinated me so much that I wanted to write more about it to you folks at home. I wished I could write with all my ten fingers." The last phrase was an invention, unlike the number of African proverbs she so often put over in English during her public speeches, such as "no hand can wash itself properly," which was intended to exhort the listeners to unity.