Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams was born on 3 March 1919 in Vrededorp, a suburb of Johannesburg, to an Ethiopian father and a mixed-race mother from Cape Town. Fatherless, brought up by relatives, he did not begin school until the age of eleven and afterwards worked at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Johannesburg. In 1939, he left the country as a sailor for England, became a journalist in London and helped organise the fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945. Settled afterwards in Jamaica, he was a journalist and radio commentator there, and died there in January 2017, aged ninety-seven.

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