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
1944-05-08
South Africa
Columbia University
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