Keorapetse Kgositsile
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Pesmi

NO SERENITY HERE angleščina

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IN THE NAMING angleščina

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ANGUISH LONGER THAN SORROW angleščina

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FESTIVE HEART angleščina

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FOR JOHNNY DYANI angleščina

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SANTAMARIA angleščina

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CASSANDRA WILSON WILL SING angleščina

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eTHEKWINI angleščina

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LETTER FROM HAVANA angleščina

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Keorapetse Kgositsile
Author

About

* 19.09.1938, Johannesburg, Južnoafriška republika
† 03.01.2018, Johannesburg, Južnoafriška republika

Keorapetse Kgositsile was born on September 19, 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1961 Kgositsile was one of the first young members of the African National Congress (ANC) who were instructed to leave the country by the leadership of the national liberation movement.

After a year in Tanzania, where he worked on the Spearhead Magazine as Frene Jinwalla’s editorial assistant, Kgositsile got a scholarship to study Literature and Creative Writing in the United States. Since his first post at Sarah Lawrence College in New York in 1969, he taught Literature and Creative Writing at a number of universities in the United States and on the African continent, including the University of Denver, Wayne State University, New School for Social Research, University of California at Los Angeles and the universities of Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Fort Hare. Professor Kgositsile has been the Special Adviser to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr. Z. Pallo Jordan.

Kgositsile is one of the most internationally acclaimed and widely published South African poets. His poetry collections include My Name is Afrika, Heartprints, To the Bitter End, If I Could Sing, This Way I Salute You.
In 2006, he became South Africa’s National Poet Laureate.

Keorapetse Kgositsile has passed away on January 3, 2018.