His 2002 play “Sorrows and Rejoicings” concerned a poet who returns to South Africa after a long exile. He eventually came to ...

During the 1970s and '80s, Breytenbach's work in Afrikaans placed him among South Africa's best-known poets; his imprisonment by the apartheid regime (recounted in his 1985 memoir, The True ...

The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.

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Rubadiri is Malawi’s earliest poet worth mentioning in any literary debate ... famous study titled ‘Uhuru’s Fire: African Literature East to South’, Rubadiri’s poetry is characterised ...

The honour has gone to Breyten Breytenbach, the South African poet, writer and artist who opposed Apartheid and was a political prisoner for many years. The poet will receive the award in an official ...

On the panel are black British rapper-poet Akala; Abdilatif Abdalla, the Kenyan poet and activist; Nigerian novelist Sarah Ladipo Manyika; and Yewande Omotoso, South African poet and academic.

Dennis Brutus, 85, former professor of literature and African studies, died Dec. 26 in Cape Town, South Africa. A South African poet and anti-apartheid activist, Brutus taught at Northwestern from ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as "The Blood Knot" and "’Master Harold’... and ...