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

Sydney Sipho Sepamla was born in 1932 in South Africa. He studied teaching at Pretoria Normal College before attending drama school in the UK in the early 1970s. He published his first volume of poetry, Hurry Up to It!, in 1975. He founded the Federated Union of Black Artists (now the Fuba Academy of Arts) and served as the editor of the literary magazine New Classic and the theatre magazine S’ketsh. Sepamla received several awards for his writing, including the Thomas Pringle Award in 1977 and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was a member of the government’s Arts and Culture Task Group. He died in 2007.