Mazisi Kunene poems

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.

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.

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.

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)