![]() In 1964, she left South Africa for a teaching job in Bechuanaland Protectorate, in a village called Serowe. After stints at few newspapers and magazines, she began her own newspaper, The Citizen, which promoted Pan-African views. In June of 1958, she resigned to become a journalist in Durban. She immediately began teaching at the Clairwood Coloured School in Durban. In January 1956, at age 18, Bessie received a teaching certificate. As a result of her mixed-race status, she suffered greatly from discrimination by Africans. Her mother was a Scottish woman and her father was an unknown Black South African. I did a search and found numerous websites devoted to this important African writer.īessie Head was born on July 6, 1937, in Natal. I had never heard of Bessie, but something in Walker’s description piqued my curiosity. ![]() Most of the time, books and authors mentioned in novels are as fictional as the rest of the story. In this novel, she mentions an African writer Bessie Head. ![]() I recently reviewed the great Alice Walker novel, Temple of my Familiar. ![]()
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