Mongane Wally Serote

South African writer

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contribution to South African literature

  • South Africa
    In South Africa

    …era the South African poet Mongane Wally Serote remarked,

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  • South Africa
    In South Africa: Multicultural literature

    …for Literature), Sipho Sepamla, and Mongane Wally Serote have joined such established figures as Mphahlele, Paton, Brink, and Leroux in bringing South African literary life to the wider world. With the end of apartheid, some South African writers have tried to write about nonapartheid subjects, while others cannot seem to…

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  • Athol Fugard with John Kani and Winston Ntshona
    In African literature: English

    …Every Birth Its Blood (1981), Mongane Wally Serote tells the stories of Tsi Molope and Oupa Molope. Tsi looks to his past and wonders, “Where does a river begin to take its journey to the sea?” The world in which Oupa—the son of Mary, Tsi’s sister—lives postdates the Soweto Uprising…

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