Zoë Wicomb, Acclaimed South African Author, Dies at 76

In novels and short stories, she delivered sharp observations of the constraints and contradictions of apartheid and its aftermath.
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South Africa’s townships: a poem of determination

Our guest blogger today is William Richards, a ONE Youth Ambassador from the UK. This past July I spent my summer holiday in South Africa doing some volunteering and sightseeing. My school organised ...
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Folksong and Ballad as Social Comment in some South African Railway Poems and Songs

English in Africa, Vol. 46, No. 2 (AUGUST 2019), pp. 103-122 (20 pages) This article analyses a selection of South African English and Afrikaans humorous and satirical poems and songs about the ...
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Book shines light on Dennis Brutus, one of South Africa’s most underrated poets

Keith Gottschalk is an ANC member, but writes this review in his personal capacities as a historian and a poet. Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot ...
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Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

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