Bessie Head

Bessie Head was born on 6 July 1937 in Pietermaritzburg, to a white mother and a black father, at a time when such unions were forbidden. Raised by a mixed-race foster family, then in an Anglican school in Durban, she worked as a teacher, then as a journalist for titles linked to Drum magazine, and joined the Pan Africanist Congress. In 1964 she left with her son for Bechuanaland, with no possibility of return, settled in Serowe and obtained Botswana nationality only in 1979. She died in Serowe in 1986.

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• NovelWhen Rain Clouds GatherBessie Head · 1968Literature