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Bonisile John Kani, OIS, OBE (born 30 August 1942) is a South African actor, author, director and playwright. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2018), Rafiki in The Lion King (2019) and Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix films Murder Mystery (2019) and Murder Mystery 2 (2023).
This is a list of African-American actors by alphabetical order. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African American and a notable actor. The list is organized chronologically, grouping actors by the surnames.
Amanda S. C. Gorman [1] (born March 7, 1998) [2] is an American poet, activist, and model. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015.
Christine Barkhuizen le Roux (1959–2020), South African poet; Coleman Barks (born 1937), US poet; Mihály Barla (Miháo Barla, c. 1778–1824), Slovenian poet and pastor in Hungary; Mary Barnard (1909–2001), US poet, biographer and translator; Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), US writer; William Barnes (1801–1886), English writer, poet and ...
This is a list of notable African American poets. For other African Americans, see Lists of African Americans. Ron Allen, poet, playwright [1]
This is a list of noted South African poets, poets born or raised in South Africa, whether living there or overseas, and writing in one of the South African languages This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem [1] and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States . [ 2 ]
Nikki Grimes (born 1950), children's book author and poet [12] Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958) Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914) Rosa Guy (1922–2012) John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso; Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author of Homegoing.