biography
| name: |
Serote, Mongane Wally
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pronunciation:
[serohtay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1944– )
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| biography:
| Poet and novelist, born in Sophiatown, NE South Africa. An influential figure in the ‘politics of culture’ in South Africa, he became one of the ‘township poets’ of the 1970s, whose angry verse broke a decade of African creative silence. His first volume of verse, Yakhal ’inkomo (1972), was followed by four others, and in 1981 he published a novel, To Every Birth Its Blood. He lived in exile for much of the 1970s and 1980s, and after his return to South Africa in 1990 headed the Department of Art and Culture of the African National Congress. |
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