Listening to Literature: Towards a South African Canon
What must never ever elude us, as African creatives and cultural workers, is that Africa must be free. A free people free themselves by defining what freedom means for them. Because freedom means being able to be everything a nation wants to be, Africa knows, and knew, from time immemorial, that freedom must be attained by all means necessary, if the end is to establish security, peace and justice for all who live in it. In spite of all the serious problems and challenges which Africa has had to face and experience, Africa still stands and dies by these words: Motho ke motho ka batho ba Bang (a person is a person by and because of other people).
- Dr Mongane Serote
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Chapters
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Introduction
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How Plaatje expressed his oral influences in his written work
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Influences & significances of orality & orature on Mazisi Kunene
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Images of SoundNontsizi Mgqwetho’s Poetry
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Mqhayi’s poetic gift and well of knowledge
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“To wander is to see”Go tsamaya ke go bona
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