It recounted his struggle to get an education and the setbacks he experienced in his teaching career.Mphahlele wrote two autobiographies, more than 30 short stories, two verse plays and a number of poems. He is deemed as the "Dean of African Letters".He was the recipient of numerous ...
Ingrid Jonker (September 19, 1933 – July 19, 1965) was a South African poet and founder of the emerging counterculture literary movement. The daughter of a Member of Parliament for the National Party, her views and work strongly opposed the apartheid government of the time.Jonker...
Nelson Mandela’s much-quoted sentiment that “(South African) freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” is decorating the walls of refugee camps in the Gaza Strip where millions of refugees are waiting for the day of their return to the towns and villages which were ethni...
The well-known interest of the American transcendentalists in Eastern philosophy, Melville's sociological travel narratives, Poe's poems about strange and marvelous lands, and other texts too numerous to be mentioned here form a continuous narrative that needs to be read through the discourse of ...
Apartheid(e.g.CryFreedom) Response1:LongNight’sJourneyintotheDay Response2:thepoemsaboutphysicalsufferings; Response3:aboutRaceRelationsandanti- Apartheidmovements;theothercultural examples Response4:aboutGenderRelations; Response5:abouttraditionandindividualvs. ...
SouthAfrica’sApartheid Consequencesand CulturalResponses Outline HistoryofApartheid(e.g.Cry,MyBeloved Country;CryFreedom) Consequences&Responses: –1LongNight’sJourneyintotheDay (LiteraryResponses) –2:thepoemsaboutphysicalsufferings; –3:StoriesonRaceRelationsandanti-Apartheid movements(Thefollowingtwoweeks)...
South-African Drama 1. Introduction Writing about the social and political importance of South-African Drama and the impact authors such as Fugard and Kani had on the political landscape of South Africa implies having to deal with the past of South Africa, not only as far as politics but als...
9 It was the niche operation that moved key South African leaders, political refugees and freedom fighters through Bechuanaland to Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia (and vice versa). The aim was to transit them by air as fast as possible to protect them from being kidnapped by agents of the ...
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Dr. Bijoy Misra rendered two poems in Odia, a stanza each.The first oneGhanaghataa jaae daaki,written by his father in 1947, talks about the massive internal violence in the country following the declaration of independence.The poet wonders one dark cloud might have gone, more dark clouds ...