Mazisi Kunene

2022 - 5 - 12

Post cover
Image courtesy of "Devdiscourse"

Mazisi Kunene: Google honors South African poet on his 92nd ... (Devdiscourse)

Google doodle celebrates the 92nd birthday of the South African poet Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene. He is best known for his poem "Emperor Shaka the Great." He is ...

In 1982, Kunene published a second collection of poems titled "The Ancestors and the Sacred Mountain: Poems" containing 100 of his poems. Post-apartheid, Kunene returned to South Africa to continue writing in Zulu. In 1993, UNESCO honored him as Africa's poet laureate. At the start of apartheid, Mazisi Kunene used his works to resist the government's racist segregation system. His Master's thesis was titled "An Analytical Survey of Zulu Poetry, Both Traditional and Modern." As he grew older, he became a strong advocate for the preservation of indigenous Zulu poetic traditions. Updated: 12-05-2022 11:07 IST

Post cover
Image courtesy of "Time Bulletin"

Mazisi Kunene: Google Doodle celebrates South African poet ... (Time Bulletin)

Google Doodle celebrates the 92nd birthday of South African poet laureate Mazisi (Raymond) Kunene whose work recorded the history of the Zulu people on May ...

Mazisi Kunene returned to South Africa in 1992, where he taught at the University of Natal until his retirement. Unodumehlezi Kamenzi was published in 2017 on the 10th anniversary of his death. Anthem of the Decades: A Zulu Epic published in English in 1981 tells the Zulu legend of how death came to humanity. From very early in his life as a youngster Mazisi Kunene started writing poetry and short stories in Zulu, and by the age of 11, he was being published in local papers. He won a Bantu Literary Competition in 1956 and left for London, England, to learn at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1959. Mazisi Kunene wrote and published poetry from very early in his life.

Post cover
Image courtesy of "NationalWorld"

Mazisi Kunene: poems, who was anti-apartheid activist, what does ... (NationalWorld)

Get all of the latest Arts and Books news from NationalWorld. Providing fresh perspective online for news across the UK.

He became a staunch supporter for the preservation of traditional Zulu poetic traditions as he grew older, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Zulu and history from the University of Natal, as well as a Master of Arts in Zulu Poetry. Kunene was born in Durban, South Africa, and began writing poems and short stories in Zulu as a child - by the age of 11, he had been published in local newspapers. Mazisi Kunene was a South African poet best known for ‘Emperor Shaka the Great’, an epic poem based on the Zulu oral tradition, compiled in the Zulu language and then translated to English by Kunene himself.

Post cover
Image courtesy of "Mirror.co.uk"

Who was Mazisi Kunene? Google celebrates one of Africa's top ... (Mirror.co.uk)

Google Doodle is celebrating the life of Mazisi Kunene, who became an icon of African literature after he was forced to flee his native South Africa during ...

Here we take a closer look at who he was. At university, his postgraduate thesis discussed the dilution of Zulu culture in Western literature and by the time apartheid began in South Africa he was in a position to use his work so far to oppose the vile divide. The Doodle shows Mazisi going about his work, for which he gained fame as a figure in the opposition to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, his home nation.

Post cover
Image courtesy of "Evening Standard"

Who was Mazisi Kunene? Google Doodle celebrates South African ... (Evening Standard)

Mazisi Kunene was born on May 12, 1930, in Durban, a South African province now called KwaZulu-Natal. Kunene began writing poetry in the Zulu language as a ...

At this time, he was also a cultural advisor to UNESCO. He continued to write in exile, and his work is known for exploring South African culture, religion and history, especially in the context of colonialism, apartheid and slavery. Growing up, he became an advocate for preserving Zulu poetic traditions.

Post cover
Image courtesy of "iNews"

Mazisi Kunene: Why today's Google Doodle is marking the South ... (iNews)

His work explores his nation's culture, religion and history in the context of colonialism, apartheid and slavery. Mazisi Kunene was a South African poet ...

He later also became the first poet laureate of democratic South Africa. By age 11, he was publishing his writings in local newspapers and magazines. He wrote some of his seminal works in the UK, where he fled into exile after the South African government violently repressed the resistance movement.

Post cover
Image courtesy of "Eyewitness News"

Mazisi Kunene is Thursday's Google Doodle, here's why (Eyewitness News)

A doodle of the anti-apartheid activist was put on the company's homepage on Thursday morning highlighting his work in resisting the racist apartheid ...

A doodle of the anti-apartheid activist was put on the company's homepage on Thursday morning highlighting his work in resisting the racist apartheid regime. A doodle of the anti-apartheid activist was put on the company's homepage on Thursday morning highlighting his work in resisting the racist apartheid regime. Mazisi Kunenes poetry was so powerful that the apartheid government originally banned his work in South Africa. Still, he became South Africas first poet laureate.Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles)

Post cover
Image courtesy of "TimesLIVE"

Who is the SA poet honoured by Google today? 5 things you need to ... (TimesLIVE)

Celebrated poet and writer Mazisi Kunene was born on May 12 1930 in Durban. He is the latest in a string of SA icons to be honoured by Google with a doodle.

He was an ANC representative in Europe and a cultural adviser to Unesco. Besides teaching at institutions in SA and Lesotho, Kunene studied in England and taught at the University of California, University of Iowa and was a visiting professor of African literature at Stanford University, among others. That man is South African.

Explore the last week