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Keorapetse Kgositsile

Poet · Author 1938–2018

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About Keorapetse Kgositsile

South African poet and political activist (1938-2018)

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“As an African writer I did not have to sound like a carbon copy English boy if I wrote in English.”

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“The role of the poet has never changed ever since there was poetry.”

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