Biography
Dladla Angifi was born in 1950 in Gauteng, South Africa. He is the author of poetry collections The Girl Who Then Feared To Sleep (2001), We are All Rivers (2010) and an isiZulu collection titled Uhambo (2013). Through his work, Angifi criticized the South African government and reflected on a progressive future where oppressive structures are dismantled, and hope is restored. Creative writing teacher and founder of Femba Writing Project (FWP), the poet and playwright is known to use writing as a political tool to challenge the colonizing practices that shape the teaching and writing of poetry in South Africa. He went to the University of South Africa for his Bachelors and the University of the Witwatersrand for an Honours in publishing in 1997. He died in Katlehong in Gauteng, South Africa in 2020.
Poetry Collections
The Girl Who Then Feared To Sleep (Deep South, South Africa, 2001); Lament for Kofifi Macu ( Deep South, South Africa, 2017);
Uhambo (Deep South, South Africa, 2013)
Sources
“Angifi Dladla.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Apr. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angifi_Dladla. “Angifi Proctor Dladla.” Poetry International Archives, https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/17853/Angifi-Proctor-Dladla/en/tile. Accessed 5 April 2022. Malec, Jennifer. “Angifi Dladla, 1950-2020, RIP.” The Johannesburg Review of Books, 26 Oct. 2020, https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2020/10/26/angifi-dladla-1950-2020-rip/. Accessed 5 April 2022. Bila, Vonani, & Abodunrin, Olufemi J.. (2020). Angifi Dladla (1950-2020): An Embodiment of Ku Femba as a Poetry Teaching Philosophy for Renewal. Education as Change, 24(1), 1-21. https://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8194
