Mazisi Kunene

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Mazisi Kunene


Born
in Durban, South Africa
May 12, 1930

Died
August 11, 2006

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Mazisi Kunene was a South African poet best known for his poem Emperor Shaka the Great. While in exile from South Africa's apartheid regime, Kunene was an active supporter and organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and Africa. He would later teach at UCLA and become Africa's and South Africa's poet laureate. ...more

Average rating: 4.27 · 85 ratings · 6 reviews · 16 distinct works
Emperor Shaka the Great: A ...

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4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions
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Anthem of the Decades: A Zu...

4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions
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Echoes from the Mountain

4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007
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The ancestors & the sacred ...

4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1982
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Zulu Poems

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Unodumehlezi Kamenzi

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Isibusiso sikamhawu

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994
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アフリカ創世の神話―女性に捧げるズールーの讃歌

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Umzwilili Wama-Afrika

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Les ancêtres et la montagne...

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“But how wonderful when the tale is told,
And the message that is meant for us
Opens like the scents of a mountain flower!”
Mazisi Kunene

“He who kills in cold blood shall himself be killed in cold blood.”
Mazisi Kunene

“A man of deceit fears the same plots against him.”
Mazisi Kunene

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