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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]
Born in Johannesburg, South African poet and editor Keorapetse Kgositsile left his homeland in 1961 because of the pressures of apartheid. He earned an MFA at Columbia University, and his publications include This Way I Salute You (2004), If I Could Sing: Selected Poems (2002), and The Present Is a…
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 ene. 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...
"Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught in the United States for a significant part of his life and collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers, including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, and George Kent.
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.
3 de ene. de 2018 · By Amanda Wicks and Matthew Strauss. January 3, 2018. Keorapetse Kgositsile (Anacleto Rapping/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images), Thebe Kgositsile (Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage) Keorapetse...
