Author: NTHUNYA, MPHO 'M'ATSEPO
Title: Singing Away the Hunger. Stories of a life in Lesotho.
Description: University of Natal Press, 1996.. Edited by K. Limakatso Kendall; with a foreword by Ellen Kuzwayo 174 p.,photogr on plates HARDCOVER: (Orig. pictorial wraps, ) ¶ 'A compelling and unusual book in which Nthunya remembers the many lives she has led: as a township girl in Benoni just before the apartheid government came to power; as a prosperous farmer in Lesotho; as a domestic worker; as a matriarch and family elder. Her autobiography unrolls as a succession of related but independent, overlapping stories in spare, simple 'Sesoth-ised English.''

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