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Women in African Literature: Writing and Representation
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Jan 08, 2016

Women in African Literature: Writing and Representation

Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a ...

Spark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
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Mar 01, 2017

Spark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication

"On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the...

Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
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Jan 16, 2015

Poetry and Resistance in the 1970’s

 

Black Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
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Jun 18, 2012

Black Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation

Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had be...

Nobel Prizes and South African Laureates
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Apr 03, 2011

Nobel Prizes and South African Laureates

..to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. Winning a Nobel Prize ...

Black South African literature
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Mar 22, 2011

Black South African literature

The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded...

Sophiatown in Literature
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Mar 16, 2011

Sophiatown in Literature

An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, pla...

Grade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
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Jan 21, 2015

Grade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century