Amazwi South African Museum of Literature
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The Amazwi South African Museum of Literature collects, conserves and promotes the literatures of all of South Africa’s official languages. Previously known as the National English Literary Museum (NELM), originally founded with a small collection of South African manuscripts by the late Professor Guy Butler of Rhodes University in the 1960s.
Amazwi is the Zulu word for "voices".
For a full discussion of the origins, history and function of the museum, see the entry on the National English Literary Museum.
