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Keorapetse William Kgositsile - French
URL: http://www.librairie-compagnie.fr/afrique-sud/auteurs/kgositsile.htm

Collaborateur de New Age au Cap et du Spearhead Magazine en Tanzanie, il s’exile aux États-Unis en 1962. Recueils de poèmes : Spirits Unchained, 1969 ; For Melba, 1970 ; My Name is Afrika, 1971.

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Black African Literature - English
URL: http://subject.lib.umn.edu/hum/afrlit.html

Introduction Writers by Country Writers Alphabetically by Name Current Periodicals Relevant to African Literature Reference Books in Wilson Library Index to Reference Books

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Keorapetse Kgositsile --  Encyclopædia Britannica - English
URL: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=46292&tocid=0&query=unchain&ct=

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in full Keorapetse William Kgositsile South African poet and essayist whose writings focus on Pan-African liberation as the fruit of informed heroism and compassionate humanism. Kgositsile's verse uniquely combines indigenous South African with black American structural and rhetorical traditions.

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Keorapetse Kgositsile - English
URL: http://southafrica.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/21495

Born in 1938, Keorapetse ‘Willie’ Kgositsile left South Africa in 1961 as one of the first young ANC members instructed to do so by the leadership of the liberation movement. He was a founding member of the ANC Department of Education as well as that of Arts and Culture. The recipient of many poetry awards, he has also studied and taught Literature and Creative Writing at a number of universities in the United States and in Africa.

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