A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times,
Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement
1865-1985
Serote, Mongane Wally
Biography
South Africa
Birth date: 1944-05-08
Birth location:
Johannesburg,
South Africa
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.
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