Former poet laureate of South Africa Keorapetse Kgositsile and K. Mensah Wali, artistic director of Kente Arts Alliance discuss South Africa’s progress since the end of apartheid, the effects of exile on family, and the relationship between poetry and jazz.
Read more...
In this video, a reading featuring the Poet Laureate of South Africa Keorapetse Kgositsile and jazz saxophonist and composer Oliver Lake. The event was part of City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s Reading of the World series.
Read more...
In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. This week news from Syria, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, and an essay by Ray Bradbury.
Read more...
In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature. This week news from Colombia, South Africa, China, Israel and Pakistan.
Read more...
In this excerpt from a speech she delivered on March 14, Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer warns that South Africa’s Protection of State Information Bill will return the country to an equivalent of apartheid-era limits on free speech.
Read more...
The third installment of Reading of the World series features a reading by Poet Laureate of South Africa (2006), Keorapetse Kgositsile, accompanied by saxophonist and composer Oliver Lake.
Read more...
“Left Behind,” by South African author Maxine Case, is a condensed memoir full of the observations, idiosyncrasies, and fears of an immigrant living in New York without a definite future.
Read more...
