Years of Fire and Ash - South African Poems of Decolonisation (Mbao Wamuwi)(Paperback / softback)

A unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry i may have been born on 27 April 1994 - but i was never born free. Mjiele Msimang Contemporary poet Mjiele Msimang captures something of today's zeitgeist in his poem 'born(e) to the grave.' But what of the past half-century of protest poetry in South Africa, a rich tradition born in response to colonialism, and fed by apartheid and a faltering democracy? in Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, over fifty years of protest poetry are gathered in one single volume, bringing together some of the most remarkable and thought-provoking poems that have emerged from struggle. The animating impulse behind this collection of old and new voices is 'decolonisation', a term which has regained prominence over the last few years. It allows us to perceive how
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