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The daughter of exiled South African parents, Mashile was born in the United States, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, [2] and returned to South Africa in the mid-1990s after the end of apartheid. [3] She began to study law and international relations at the University of the Witwatersrand but became more interested in the arts. With Myesha Jenkins ...
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.
During the 1970s he was a central figure among African-American poets, encouraging interest in Africa as well as the practice of poetry as a performance art; he was well known for his readings in New York City jazz clubs. Kgositsile was one of the first to bridge the gap between African poetry and African-American poetry in the United States.
Chris van Wyk (1957 – 2014) was a South African children's book author, novelist and poet. Van Wyk is famous for his poem "In Detention" on the suspicious deaths that befell South African political prisoners during Apartheid. In 1976 he published a volume of poetry, It Is Time to Go Home (1979), that won the 1980 Olive Schreiner Prize.
South African actor Connie Chiume, best known in the U.S. for her appearances in the Marvel “Black Panther” movies, has died at age 72. Chiume’s family announced her death on Instagram, ...
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 African poets. Contemporary Africa has a range of important poets across many different genres and cultures. Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison. The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.