Mazisi Kunene!

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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

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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.

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