biography
| name: |
Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni
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pronunciation:
[mchahlee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1940– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Vryheid, E South Africa. He was one of the wave of ‘township poets’ whose angry verse in the 1970s broke a decade of black creative silence. He published Sounds of a Cowhide Drum in 1971. These poems, in forceful everyday language, conveyed the harshness and emotions of ghetto life to a stunned white readership. Later works include Fireflames (1980). |
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