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| + | He became a prominent and vocal activist for the African National Congress (ANC). In 1961, at the behest of the ANC, he went into exile, initially to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and subsequently to the US where he became involved in the Black Arts Movement. | ||
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| + | In 1990 he returned to South Africa. In the many volumes published during his exile and after his return, Kgositsile repeatedly and fearlessly addressed the crimes both of apartheid and of global racism, advocating a revolutionary politics of resistance. | ||
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| + | Kgositsile was a leading member of [[Medu Art Ensemble]]. He became South Africa’s first National Poet Laureate in 2006. | ||
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| + | https://theconversation.com/the-story-of-an-alliance-between-two-poets-one-cuban-one-south-african-110802 | ||
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Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018) was a South African Tswana poet, Black Theatre theorist and administrator, journalist and political activist.
Also known by his pen name Bra Willie
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Biography
Born in Johannesburg in 1938.
He became a prominent and vocal activist for the African National Congress (ANC). In 1961, at the behest of the ANC, he went into exile, initially to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, and subsequently to the US where he became involved in the Black Arts Movement.
In 1990 he returned to South Africa. In the many volumes published during his exile and after his return, Kgositsile repeatedly and fearlessly addressed the crimes both of apartheid and of global racism, advocating a revolutionary politics of resistance.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Kgositsile was a leading member of Medu Art Ensemble. He became South Africa’s first National Poet Laureate in 2006.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keorapetse_Kgositsile
https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-71-medu-art-ensemble/
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