- examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene
- explores how 'oraliterature' and cultural traditions informed Kunene's poetry
- draws on a range of interviews and comparative studies, the book situates Kunene's work in a wider conversation about South African social struggles.
- This book is an important contribution to our understanding of one of the giants of African literary history. As such, it will be of interest to researchers across African literary and postcolonial studies.
Dike Okoro is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Department at Harris Stowe State University, USA. He is the author of Lupenga Mphande: Eco-critical Poet and Political Activist (2021). Okoro is a Senior Research Fellow at Ken Saro-Wiwa Foundation and a past visiting scholar at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Title: Mazisi Kunene: Literature, Activism, and African Worldview (Routledge Studies in African Literature)
Author: Okoro, Dike
ISBN: 9781032286563
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-14
Number of Pages: 130
Weight: 0.2201 kg
I have collaborated with Dike Okoro on several projects dealing with Zulu literature in particular, and African literature in general. He is one of the most promising members of the new generation of literary critics and writers to come out of African in recent years.
Lupenga Mphanda, PhD, Professor of African Languages/Literature, The Ohio State University/USA
Dike Okoro has already established himself as an urgent and necessary literary critic and scholar of African and African Diaspora Literature. As such, Mazisi Kunene: Literature, Activism, and African Worldview will be an important contribution to the growing need for books on African poets in Africa and around the world.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Author, Praise Song for My Children: New & Selected Poems
Dr. Dike Okoro has proven himself as one of the premier scholars of African poetry. This book is timely and would constitute an important reference for future research on Mazisi Kunene and other South African poets.
Chielozona Eze, PhD, Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor, NEIU & Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
