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Peter Abrahams was a South African-born author, political commentator, and journalist.
Born to an Ethiopian father and a Colored (i.e. mixed-race South African) mother, Abrahams became one of South Africa's best-known authors. His thirteen books are largely focused on social issues, particularly racism and South Africa's official policy of segregation, which was known as apartheid.
In , Abrahams settled in Jamaica, where he worked as a radio journalist while continuing to write novels and memoirs. At 97, he was found dead in his home; he is presumed to have been murdered.
Peter Abrahams's novel Mine Boy follows a young farm boy from the northern part of South Africa named Xuma as he moves to Johannesburg to work in a gold mine. As Xuma's heart is broken by a black woman who wishes to be white, and he is