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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

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Decade : 1970

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Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), February 1970, London

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Boycott of British Commonwealth Games (SANROC)

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Race discrimination on Panorama, BBC programme

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), May 1970, London

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

South Africa expelled from Olympics Games

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

ICA Special Poetry Reading

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Economic agreement with Malagasy Republic

    Type: Political
    Poets: Rabemananjara, Jacques

Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1971, London

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Wole Soyinka's passport impounded

    Type: Political
    Poets: Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'

Voluntary Exile of Wole Soyinka

    Type: Political
    Poets: Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'

Léopold Sédar Senghor conferred honorary degree at Harvard University

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Withdrawal of US Ambassador in Tananarive

    Type: Political
    Poets: Rabemananjara, Jacques

Death of Charles Eglington

    Type: Personal
    Poets: Eglington, Charles

Conference on the medieval Manding Empire of Mali

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Poetry International

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni

Degree Doctor of Letters by Diploma conferred to Léopold Sédar Senghor

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Senghor, Léopold Sédar

World Festival of Negro Arts, 1974

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Imprisonment of Breyten Breytenbach

    Type: Political
    Poets: Breytenbach, Breyten

Arrest of Breyten Breytenbach

    Type: Political
    Poets: Breytenbach, Breyten

Trial of Breyten Breytenbach

    Type: Political
    Poets: Breytenbach, Breyten

Arrests under the Terrorism Act

    Type: Political
    Poets: Breytenbach, Breyten

Wole Soyinka appointed professor of comparative literature at the University of Ife

    Type: Professional
    Poets: Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'

Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1976, Montreal

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Boycott of Olympic Games, 1976, South Africa

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Boycott of Olympic Games, 1976, Canada

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Dennis Brutus protests the Olympics (SANROC), 1977, London

    Type: Political
    Poets: Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Arrest of Pitika Ntuli

    Type: Political
    Poets: Ntuli, Pitika