Thomas Mofolo

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo was born on 22 December 1876 in Ha Khojane, in the district of Mafeteng, in Basutoland. Trained at the Morija Bible school and the Thabeng teacher training school, he joined the Morija book depot in 1898, where he was a reader and proofreader, and he taught. His first book, in 1907, is regarded as the first novel published in an African language. He then left Morija for Johannesburg, became a labour recruiter, then a farmer; the purchase of a farm, contrary to South African land law, ruined him. He died in Teyateyaneng on 8 September 1948.

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• NovelChakaThomas Mofolo · 1925Literature