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    Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is often regarded as the first African novelist. His body of work, which consists of three books...
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    produced in Sesotho. Notable Sesotho-language literature includes Thomas Mofolo's epic Chaka, which has been translated into several languages, including...
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  • Chaka is the third and final novel by Lesotho writer Thomas Mofolo. Written in Sesotho, it is a mythic fictional retelling of the story of the rise and...
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  • African kingdom of Lesotho include Moroesi Akhionbare (1945–2020 ), Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948), Caroline Ntseliseng Khaketla (1918–2012), Mzamane Nhlapo...
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  • Zakes Mda (South Africa): Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redness Thomas Mofolo (South Africa/Lesotho): Chaka (1925) Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia) Black...
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  • circulating compelling content.": 17  Mosotho South-African media theorist Thomas Mofolo uses Rushkoff's idea to define viral as a type of virtual collective...
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    In South Africa, the popular 1920 novel Chaka, written in Sotho by Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948) presented a magical realist account of the life of the Zulu...
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    Garis, makes his debut in the Newark News (U.S.) March – Lesotho author Thomas Mofolo completes his novel Chaka; he leaves Morija suddenly and it is not published...
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    townships. In 1954, the City Council built 5,100 houses in Jabavu and 1,450 in Mofolo. The city council's pride and joy was its economic scheme known as Dube...
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  • Sotho novelist[Jahn] Zakea D. Mangoaela (1883–1963), folklorist[Jahn] Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948), novelist[Jahn] A. S. Mopeli-Paulus (1913–1960), novelist...
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  • Adventure, Cleopatra, Red Eve, and Eric Brighteyes. The Lesotho writer Thomas Mofolo was influenced by Nada the Lily when writing his own novel of Zulu life...
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    Culture.pl. Schwartz, Bernard (15 May 2017). "The Canonization of Dylan Thomas". Thomas, Gwyn (12 March 2013). Dafydd ap Gwilym: y gŵr sydd yn ei gerddi. Cyhoeddiadau...
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    prominent Sesotho authors are MKPD Maphala, BM Khaketla, N.S. Puleng, Thomas Mofolo, and Makali Isabella Mokitimi. Some of the most prominent Pedi authors...
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  • tsa sesotho. Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1966. The works of Thomas Mofolo : summaries and critiques : a forerunner of A digest of African vernacular...
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    Mofolo is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Mofolo is named for the Basotho writer Thomas Mofolo...
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    Inie J (2016). "Insights into translation and the original text: Thomas Mofolo's Chaka". Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. 53 (2): 117–127. doi:10.17159/tvl...
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  • Marinetti, Italian poet, art theorist and Futurist writer (died 1944) Thomas Mofolo, Sotho novelist (died 1948) January 7 – Juste Olivier, Swiss poet (born...
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    Johanson, Aldo Leopold, Monteiro Lobato, Emil Ludwig, Claude McKay, Thomas Mofolo, Na Hye-sok, Sextil Pușcariu, Antonin Sertillanges, Montague Summers...
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  • 1874 29 October 1948 Economist The Role of Money in Economic Theory Thomas Mofolo  Lesotho 22 December 1876 8 September 1948 Writer Chaka Prosper Montagné...
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  • Leloba Sefetogi (1989). The Image of Christianity in Sesotho Literature: Thomas Mofolo and His Contemporaries. H. Buske. ISBN 978-3-87118-929-6. Mitchell,...
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  • In 1976, the inaugural Mofolo-Plomer Prize, created by Nadine Gordimer and so named in honour of Basotho writer Thomas Mofolo and Plomer, was awarded...
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  • Khoury (born 1948) Amin Maalouf (born 1949) Widad Sakakini (1913–1991) Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948) Slavko Janevski (1920–2000) Michèle Rakotoson (born 1948)...
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    Inie J (2016). "Insights into translation and the original text: Thomas Mofolo's Chaka". Tydskrif vir Letterkunde. 53 (2): 117–127. doi:10.17159/tvl...
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski, Z. K. Matthews, D. A. Masolo, Achille Mbembe, Thomas Mofolo, John Middleton, Simon Ottenberg, J. D. Y. Peel, Mamphela Ramphele,...
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  • Melody Moezzi (born 1979, Iran/US, nf) Donald Moffitt (1931–2014, US, f) Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948, Basutoland/Lesotho, f) George Mogridge (1787–1854, England...
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  • figure among the early generation of writers, including Sol Plaatje and Thomas Mofolo, who established a literary tradition for the more recent generation(s)...
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  • 2013, Lesotho contains three main libraries: The National Library, the Thomas Mofolo Library and National Archives at the University of Lesotho, and the...
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  • Chaka (film), a 2000 Bengali film Chaka (novel), a novel by the writer Thomas Mofolo of Lesotho "Cha-Ka", an episode of the 1974 series Land of the Lost...
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  • Mengiste (born 1971), Ethiopia/US Felix Mnthali (born 1933), Malawi Thomas Mofolo (1876–1948), Lesotho Nadifa Mohamed (born 1981), Somalia Nthikeng Mohlele...
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  • Bottomley, English poet, writer of verse drama (born 1874) September 8 – Thomas Mofolo, Sotho novelist (born 1876) September 9 – Lajos Bíró, Hungarian novelist...
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