255pp., paperback, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2023

ISBN: 9781496221155

Poet, journalist and political activist Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938–2018) was born in Johannesburg. An active member of the ANC, he went into exile in 1961, first in Tanzania and then in the USA, where he studied at various universities. He returned to Africa in 1975, taught at the University of Dar es Salaam, and founded the ANC's Department of Education and its Department of Arts and Culture. He returned to South Africa in 1990, served as Vice President of COSAW, and later as special adviser to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo Jordan. Kgositsile was chosen as South Africa’s national poet laureate in 2006. His publications include Spirits Unchained (1969), My Name is Afrika (1971), The Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live (1974), When the Clouds Clear (1990), This Way I Salute You (2004).

Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is a South African poet and performance artist, and teaches creative writing at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Uhuru Portia Phalafala is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Stellenbosch University, and the author of Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement, poetics of possibility; Home Is Where the Music Is, a conversation with Keorapetse Kgositsile, and the poetry collection Mine Mine Mine.

KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE, collected poems, 1969-2018, edited and with an introduction by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers and Uhuru Portia Phalafala

: Kgositsile (K.)

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