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Keorapetse William Kgositsile OIS (19 September 1938 – 3 January 2018), also known by his pen name Bra Willie, was a South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist. An influential member of the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s, he was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006. [1]
Learn about the life and work of Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet and editor who was the national poet laureate of South Africa. Find his biography, publications, awards, and poems on the Poetry Foundation website.
Keorapetse Kgositsile (born September 19, 1938, Johannesburg, South Africa—died January 3, 2018, Johannesburg) was a South African poet and essayist whose writings focus on Pan-African liberation as the fruit of informed heroism and compassionate humanism.
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3 de jan. de 2018 · A biography of the poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile and South Africa's first National Poet Laureate. Learn about his life, works, achievements and legacy in the anti-apartheid struggle and the African literary scene.
16 de jan. de 2018 · Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet whose writing and activism helped bridge his country’s freedom struggle with the Black Arts Movement in the United States, died on Jan. 3 in...
This comprehensive collection of Kgositsile's new and collected works spans almost fifty years. During his lifetime, Kgositsile dedicated the majority of his poems to people or movements, documenting the struggle against racism, Western imperialism, and racial capitalism, and celebrating human creativity, particularly music, as an inherent and ...
Learn about the life and works of Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet, educator and activist. Find out his biography, bibliography and awards, and read some of his poems.
