Thomas Mofolo

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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is often regarded as the first African novelist, and the greatest author to write one in an African language. His body of work, which consists of three books composed between 1905 and 1910, were first written in Sesotho, and then widely translated.

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