Keorapetse Kgositsile

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

Biography

Kgositsile was a leading member of Medu Art Ensemble who later became South Africa’s first National Poet Laureate.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keorapetse_Kgositsile

https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-71-medu-art-ensemble/

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