Poverty has a home in Africa—like a quiet second skin. It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
Bessie Head Quotes
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
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| Birth: | 6th July, 1937 |
| Death: | 17th April, 1986 |
| Nationality: | South African |
| Profession: | Writer |
About
Bessie Emery Head was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She was a South African writer. In the 1950s and '60s she was a teacher, then a journalist for the South African magazine Drum. In 1964 she moved to Botswana as a refugee, having been peripherally involved with Pan-African politics. It would take 15 years for Head to obtain Botswana citizenship. Head settled in Serowe, the largest of Botswana's "villages". Most of Bessie Head's important works are set in Serowe, in particular the three novels When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, and A Question of Power. In 2003 she was awarded the South African "Order of Ikhamanga in Gold" for her "exceptional contribution to literature and the struggle for social change, freedom and peace."
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