Mpho Matsepo Nthunya

Mpho Matsepo Nthunya, born in 1930 in Lesotho, scarcely attended school, but she reads and speaks eight languages. She spent three decades in domestic work, notably as a cleaner at the National University of Lesotho, and supported eleven people on her wages. A storyteller in her country's oral tradition, she entrusted her accounts to K. Limakatso Kendall, an American teacher and Fulbright scholar, who shaped them into a book with her. She regards the book that came out of this as a miracle.

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• NarrativeSinging Away the HungerMpho Matsepo Nthunya · 1996Literature