The poet’s biographer on how he brought together the African and diasporic traditions of resistance and art
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Remembering the man writers and non-writers alike called Bra Willie was now a literary ancestor.
The post has become firmly entrenched but times have changed, suggesting new directions and ideas
Jazz and the fight for freedom were central to his life and poetry
His sharp and progressive pen‚ he contributed in cutting open the oppressive blanket of the apartheid system to keep the liberation spirit burning.