Literature

Member of Non European Unity Movement (NEUM), Robben Island prisoner, banned person, poet, and author

South African poet, painter, sculptor and academic

Lecturer, novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor

Poet, writer, painter and activist

Banned Person, pioneering South African publisher, university lecturer, author, cofounder of the publishing house, Ravan...

South African writer, academic, arts activist and African Humanist

Poet, Writer, Editor, Member of the Black Consciousness Movement, and Contributor for the Black Review, contributor to S...

Poet, novelist, writer and political prisoner

Book collector, historian, writer and antiquarian

Artist

editor, poet, author, recipient of Olive Schreiner Award

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian author who focused on the conditions of women. 

Soldier, Psychiatrist, Rebel, father, freedom fighter, decorated soldier, Philosopher and Author of mind provoking books...

Teacher, author and journalist

An activist in the South African freedom movement, Director of the United Nations (UN) Centre against Apartheid, author,...

Poet, book illustrator, artist, recipient of The National Order of Ikhamanga for excellence in the fields of arts and li...

South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic.

Novelist, poet, first Black African Afrikaans author, court interpreter, recipient of the Government’s National Order of...

Poet, academic and founder of the and-apartheid movement in Britain.

Poet, novelist, political activist, exile, member of the Black Consciousness Movement and African National Congress, Com...

Feminist writer

Author, journalist

Writer, member of the SACP, leader of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the 19...

Major literary figure, author, poet and dramatist, war correspondent in WWII and anti-government activist 

Journalist and author

Author, teacher, leading intellectual, member of the ANC and Director-General in the presidential office of Nelson Mande...

Poet, playwright, academic, philosopher, columnist, social worker, Black Consciousness activist, one of the founders of ...

Poet, writer and trade unionist      

Writer, poet, dramatist and  political activist

Educationist, first African Chancellor of the University of the North and Author.

Founding member of COSAW, South African author, script writer,member of the ANC and winner of the Nobel Prize for Litera...

Social historian, lecturer, researcher and writer

Journalist and poet

Novelist and poet

Professor Landau is an historian of culture and politics in southern Africa.

Poet

Journalist, author, social activist, teacher, educator, broadcaster, political prisoner, banned person, exile, member of...

Artist, Poet and activist, member of the African National Congress (ANC); the South African Communist Party (SACP) and a...

Writer and journalist

Academic and writer