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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]
A biography of the poet, political activist, author and lecturer Keorapetse William Kgositsile, who was born in Johannesburg in 1938 and died in 2018. Learn about his life, education, achievements, publications and legacy as a leading African poet and a member of the African National Congress.
19 de mar. de 2024 · Keorapetse Kgositsile was a South African poet and essayist whose writings focus on Pan-African liberation as the fruit of informed heroism and compassionate humanism. Kgositsile’s verse uniquely combines indigenous South African with black American structural and rhetorical traditions.
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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...
Learn about the life and works of Keorapetse Kgositsile, a leading figure of the African poetry movement who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the national poet laureate of South Africa from 2006 to 2018 and won many awards for his poetry and editing.
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 ...
His first poetry collection, Spirits Unchained, was published in 1969, and in 1971, his influential collection My Name is Afrika established him as a leading African-American poet. He also became well-known for his performances in jazz clubs in New York City and his significance in the Pan-African movement.
