Section

Poets in the News

Poet Name

Serote, Mongane Wally

Given Name

Mongane Wally

Last Name

Serote

Date of Birth

8 May 1944

Biography

Mongane Wally Serote is a South African Black Consciousness poet and anti-apartheid activist. He joined the African National Congress in 1969 and was arrested without trial, and, following his release, he spent thirty years in exile in Botswana and England before returning to South Africa in 1990. Serote was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2018.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongane_Wally_Serote>

Education

Columbia University

News Items

Stranger's Voice

From veld-lovers to freedom fighters

Taking an African safari

Events

Conference of the English Academy of Southern Africa at Rhodes University

Works

Third World Express

History Is the Home Address

No Baby Must Weep

Yakhal’inkomo: Poems

Close Relationships

Serote, Mongane

McKuen, Rod

Dugmore, Henry Hare 'H. H.'

Mtshali, Mbuyiseni

Nkosi, Lewis

wa Thiong'o, Ngugi 'James'

Livingstone, Douglas

Quasimodo, Salvatore

Moodie, Duncan Campbell Francis 'D. C. F.'

Young, Hugo 'Smelter'

Lorca, Federico García

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

Gordimer, Nadine

Okri, Ben

Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'

Mann, Chris 'Christopher Michael Zithulele'

Sepamla, Sydney 'Sydney Sipho Sepamla'

Plomer, William

Butler, Guy

Pringle, Thomas

Selwyn, W.

Currey, Ralph Nixon 'R. N.'

Nortje, Arthur

Driver, Charles Jonathan 'Jonty'

Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu'

Gwala, Pascal

Paton, Alan

Motjuwadi, Stanley

Eglington, Charles

Lewin, Hugh

Campbell, Roy

Marechera, Dambudzo

Cope, Robert Knox 'Jack'

Clouts, Sydney

Kunene, Mazisi 'Raymond'

Rive, Richard

Adams, Perseus 'Peter Robert Charles'

Aylen, Leo

Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni

Prince, Frank Templeton 'F. T.'

Slater, Francis Carey 'F. C.'

Hamilton, William Robert 'W. R.'

Place of Birth

South Africa, Johannesburg

Spatial Coverage

Johannesburg

Region

Southern Africa

Type

Poets in the News