Pivotal South Africa poet, Dr. Mongane Wally Serote has been lauded as the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Literature Lifetime Achiever for 2016. This Award, sponsored by Media24 Books, aims to acknowledge Serote’s significant contribution to South African prose. “The Romantic notion of poets is that they are the prophets of society – sometimes with more justification than in other cases,” says Managing Director of Media24 Books, Eloise Wessels. “It is undoubtedly true that good literature … [Read more...] about Meet Literature Lifetime Achiever, Dr. Mongane Wally Serote
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Grahamstown in the news: Afrodiasporic literature can create alternative narratives
Afrodiasporic literature can create alternative narratives: No need to reinvent the wheel Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, recently organised a conference at which concerned scholars gathered to re-examine established ideas about African literature and philosophy. We weren’t trying to reinvent the ... Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews. Grahamstown, we have a problem: After graduating from Rhodes with a Bachelor of Journalism degree, Tony Lankester entered the world of … [Read more...] about Grahamstown in the news: Afrodiasporic literature can create alternative narratives
