Dhlomo, R R R

Dhlomo, R R R

▪ African writer
born , 1901, Siyamu, Natal [South Africa]
died 1971

      African novelist, journalist, and editor who wrote in Zulu and English. His An African Tragedy (1928) was the first novel in English by a Zulu writer.

      Dhlomo attended the Ohlange Institute in his hometown and then earned a teacher's certificate from Adams College at nearby Amanzimtoti. He contributed sketches and moral tales to The Sjambok, Ilanga lase Natal, and The Bantu World before becoming editor of The Bantu World (1942–43) and Ilanga lase Natal (1943–60), for which he wrote a leading feature in English and numerous articles in Zulu.

      An African Tragedy, a novel about the corrosive effects of the city on a pair of lovers from the country, is a Christian fable of sin and forgiveness. Dhlomo's major novels in Zulu—UNomalanga kaNdengezi (1934; “Nomalanga, Daughter of Ndengezi”) and Indlela yababi (1946; “The Way of the Wicked”)—paint portraits of Zulu life in Natal and Johannesburg, respectively. Many of his other Zulu works are semibiographical accounts about members of the Zulu dynasty.

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