How women's untold histories shaped South Africa's national poet: Keorapetse Kgositsile with US author Alice Walker, 1996. Anacleto Rapping/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesKeorapetse Kgositsile, the South African-born poet who passed away in 2018, lived in exile in the US from 1962 to 1975 and was at the centre of the country’s 1960s and ’70s Black Arts Movement. Informed by his … [Read more...] about How women’s untold histories shaped South Africa’s national poet | The Conversation
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A tribute to poet and professor Harry Garuba: we continue to learn with you | The Conversation
A tribute to poet and professor Harry Garuba: we continue to learn with you: Courtesy the University of Cape Town I wish I could let the language of the chained roar let loose rivers of rage to cleanse this land… And build for you a memorial ageless as your love. – Harry Garuba, Memorial wish, Animist Chants and Memorials: Poems (2017) Professor … [Read more...] about A tribute to poet and professor Harry Garuba: we continue to learn with you | The Conversation
A tribute to Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s only poet laureate | The Conversation
A tribute to Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's only poet laureate: Renowned South African poet and liberation struggle hero Keorapetse Kgositsile. Sunday World/ Tshepo KekanaMemories of Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2017), or Bra Willie, as he was affectionately known, are of a poet who always had a smile on his face, who exuded gentleness, and was soft-spoken. He died on … [Read more...] about A tribute to Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa’s only poet laureate | The Conversation
