Keorapetse Kgositsile, South Africa's second poet laureate, was a
political activist, teacher, and poet. He lived, wrote, and taught
in the United States for a significant part of his life and
collaborated with many influential and highly regarded writers,
including Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Plumpp, Dudley Randall, and
George Kent. This comprehensive collection of Kgositsile's new and
collected works spans almost fifty years. During his lifetime,
Kgositsile dedicated the majority of his poems to people or
movements, documenting the struggle against racism, Western
imperialism, and racial capitalism, and celebrating human
creativity, particularly music, as an inherent and essential aspect
of the global liberation struggle. This collection demonstrates the
commitment to equality, justice, and egalitarianism fostered by
cultural workers within the mass liberation movement. As the
introduction notes, Kgositsile had an "undisputed ability to honor
the truth in all its complexity, with a musicality that draws on
the repository of memory and history, rebuilt through the rhythms
and cadences of jazz." Addressing themes of Black solidarity,
displacement, and anticolonialism, Kgositsile's prose is fiery,
witty, and filled with conviction. This collection showcases a
voice that wanted to change the world-and did.
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