Angifi Dladla

Biography

Angifi Dladla was born in 1950 in Gauteng, South Africa. He is the author of poetry collections, including_ 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. A 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 bachelor’s and the University of the Witwatersrand for an honors in publishing in 1997. He died in Katlehong in Gauteng, South Africa in 2020.

Birth Date

1950-01-01

Place of Birth

Death Date

2020-01-01

South African

Country of Nationality

South Africa

Languages Spoken

English, Zulu

University of South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand

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 April 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angifi_Dladla. Accessed 5 April 2022.
 
Sole, Kelwyn. "Angifi Proctor Dladla." Poetry International Archives, www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poet/17853/Angifi-Proctor-Dladla/en/tile. Accessed 5 April 2022.
 
Bila, Vonani, and Olufemi J. Abodunrin. "Angifi Dladla (1950–2020): An Embodiment of Ku Femba as a Poetry Teaching Philosophy for Renewal." Education as Change, vol. 24, no. 1, 2020, pp. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8194.
 
Malec, Jennifer. "Angifi Dladla, 1950–2020, RIP." The Johannesburg Review of Books, 26 October 2020, www.johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2020/10/26/angifi-dladla-1950-2020-rip/. Accessed 5 April 2022.