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Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets and their work.
The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.
Despite being detained by the apartheid government and his work being banned, Matthews never stopped writing truth to power and was celebrated around the world.
Wrapped in Rhythm powerfully uses the poems of Lebo Mashile as lyrics.
For six decades he was a household name in urban Somalia.
A commanding presence on the global literary stage, Ama Ata Aidoo was a powerful feminist voice with a prolific output.
Poet, soldier and critic of postcolonial elites, Hadraawi was the greatest poet of his generation.
A true African poet, Don Mattera was at the centre of public life, an advocate for change and an enemy of elitism.
Nigeria’s poet and playwright, John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo, died on October 13 aged 86
A study of the late Keorapetse Kgositsile shows how the poet influenced black American culture. It also shows how his mother and his grandmother’s oral traditions in turn influenced him.
Looking at his brilliant career is looking into Algeria’s relationship with its history and identity, but also questioning what it means to be exiled.
The composer, performer and poet was an artistic pioneer of lasting and distinctive gifts, and bottomless stamina. He gave us over 70 years of high-octane Somali musical mastery.
With humility that belied his global stature, his laugh came easily, and his generous storytelling taught lessons that his students grew into for many years after he shared them.
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
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Fellow, King's College London
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Assistant Professor, Harvard University
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Associate Professor, Department of Literary Studies in English, Rhodes University
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Associate Professor of English and Liberal Studies, Winston-Salem State University
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Poet and lecturer in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
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Professor emeritus of music, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Lecturer, University of Cape Town
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Doctoral Researcher in ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London
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James Wallace Professor of International Studies, Macalester College
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Professor of Literature and Literary Theory, Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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Professor and Head of the Department of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria