ABRAHAMS… made Jamaica his home in the 1950’s— PETER Henry Abrahams, the South African journalist and author who made Jamaica his home in the 1950’s, was found dead at his Rock Hall, St Andrew, home yesterday. Abrahams, who is better known for his hard-hitting commentaries on Radio Jamaica, was 97. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Abrahams, born March 19, 1919 near Johannesburg, was the most prolific of South Africa’s black prose writers, whose early novel Mine Boy (1946) was the first to depict the dehumanizing effect of racism upon South African blacks. The publication said Abrahams left South Africa at the age of 20, settling first in Britain and then in Jamaica; nevertheless, most of his novels and short stories are based on his early life in South Africa. “Mine Boy, for example, tells of a … Read entire article »