Birthdays
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In celebrating a July literary birthday, we reflect on the life and work of Nobel prize winner, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka, better known as Wole Soyinka, born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, on 13 July 1934. Long before #BlackLivesMatter, there was Wole Soyinka. The playwright, essayist, novelist, poet and political activist has, for more than a half…
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Kofifi was a thriving place of light and dark, of hopes and dreams, and ultimately of thwarted lives and loss. And writer, journalist and philosopher Can Themba, fitted right in. Daniel Canodoise Themba, who was born in Pretoria’s Marabastad on 21 June 1924, was a charismatic writer bursting with talent in a country that went…
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Remembering novelist, poet and essay writer André Brink, who was born on 29 May 1935. Brink was the first Afrikaans writer to have a book banned by the National Party government – the 1973 novel Kennis van die Aand. The writer was a key figure in Die Sestigers, a South African literary movement that challenged…
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