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After The Burning Years: Freedom, Fugitivity and Manoeuvring Through Cemeteries of Abandoned Futures
By Sindiswa Busuku Keynote address to a conference held at Sol Plaatjie University on Language. Where to begin? Let me begin by saying I am terrified of you all, it seems at once rational and irrational. On the one hand, it is rational that I fear you all, because I...
Toward a biography of Isicamtho poet, Isabella Motadinyane
by Sizakele Nkosi Abstract Soweto-born Isicamtho poet, Isabella Motadinyane, whose Complete Poems were re-published posthumously in 2016, is here introduced to the world of literary criticism. Living and writing both during and post-apartheid, she is the first woman...
Tribute to Sibongile Khumalo: Artistic Excellence Across Cultures
The Ending is the Beginning by Lehlohonolo Shale (For Sibongile Khumalo) We thank you Azanian SongstressFor calling out its nameThe country of your ancestorsLet it embalm our cracked lipsThe ending is the beginning in this land My teacherLet it grow with the...
Moses Mtileni: tribute and poems
Tribute by Vonani Bila Moses, we shall sing your Redemption Song By Vonani Bila. The senseless murder of Nzama Khaizeni Moses Mtileni, on 8 July 2019, left me devastated. What kind of a liberated country slays and crushes its erudite poet and an intellectual of Moses’...
Voice of Conscience: The Life and Work of Attila József
by Iván Kovács Attila József is internationally acknowledged as an important poet of the first half of the 20th century and has been widely translated from Hungarian into all major European languages, as well as Russian and Esperanto. Harold Bloom, the American...