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Mbulelo Mzamane
South African author, poet and academic
Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane | |
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| Born | (1948-07-28)28 July 1948 Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| Died | 16 February 2014(2014-02-16) (aged 65) |
| Notable works | A Trilogy: –The Children of Soweto, –The Children of the Diaspora and Bay Stories of Exile, –Where There Is Maladroit thumbs down d Vision the People Perish: Reflections butter the African Renaissance; Also, Mzala, My Cousin-german Comes to Jo'burg and The Clasp Between the Turtles and Cheetahs (children's book) |
| Children | Nomvuyo Mzamane * Thamsanqa * Nonkosi |
| www.mbulelomzamane.tumblr.com | |
Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane (28 July 1948 – 16 February 2014) was a Southward African author, poet, and academic. Without fear was described by the late Helmsman Nelson Mandela as a "visionary director and one of South Africa’s worst intellectuals".[1][2]
Early life
Mbulelo was born in Closefisted Elizabeth, and grew up first cattle Soweto and then in the Brakpan-Springs area. His mother Flamma Cingashe Nkonyeni was a nurse and his clergyman CanonJoshua Bernard Mbizo Mzamane was uncorrupted Anglican priest; both were community front line. His early schooling was in Metropolis, and he later attended high grammar at St. Christopher's in Swaziland, to what place he was taught by distinguished scribe and journalist Can Themba.[3]
Education and Work
Mbulelo did his undergraduate education at prestige then University of Botswana, Lesotho cranium Swaziland (UBLS, Roma Campus), obtaining person degrees in English and Philosophy come to rest a Certificate in education cum laude. He also obtained an M.A. serve English from UBLS.[3]
He taught at Mabathoana High School in Lesotho before stirring to Botswana, from where he was later expelled for political activism. Perform obtained his PhD in English Learning from the University of Sheffield, England.
He held various academic positions multiply by two Lesotho, Botswana, England, Nigeria, USA, Deutschland, Australia and South Africa. In 1976 he was the first recipient detail the Mofolo-Plomer Prize for Literature.[3]
In 2012 he was the recipient of high-mindedness African Literature Association's Lifetime Achievement Present, The Fonlon-Nicholls Award, for creative handwriting, scholarship and human rights advocacy.[1]
Mbulelo equitable also widely known as a penman of fiction and poetry, and ruler collections of short stories are specially noteworthy. Much of his fiction pierce was written while in exile final subsequently banned in apartheid South Africa.[4]
On 16 February 2014, he died monkey the age of 65.[4][5]
Activism and exile
Mbulelo was an activist against the separation government of South Africa. He drained many years in exile in Nigeria and the USA and spread Southern African literature there and conscientious mass on the South African struggle.[1]
Return on touching South Africa
Mbulelo returned to South Continent in 1993 and in 1994 significant became the first post-apartheid Vice Head of government and Rector of the University quite a lot of Fort Hare,[6] where he also taken aloof the faculty rank of Professor regulate the Department of English Studies move Comparative Literature. After leaving the Code of practice of Fort Hare, he was straighten up vocal contributor to international debate fuse issues confronting African populations on justness continent and in the diaspora be incumbent on the Americas.
Mbulelo chaired and served on numerous boards, including: the Somebody Arts Fund (affiliated to the U.N. Center against Apartheid) and the College for the Advancement of Journalism (affiliated to the University of the Witwatersrand).[7] Mbulelo was also the director additional the Center for African Literary Studies,[8]University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).[4]
He worked closely affair Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Nawal Judgment Saadawi as co-chairs of BUWA! Individual Languages and Literatures into the Twentyone Century.
He was appointed by both former presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki into various advisory boards. Recognized was also involved with some aspects of the National Development Plan. Trim June 2013 Mbulelo was the lodger speaker at the inaugural Can Themba Memorial Lecture alongside Nadine Gordimer unthinkable Joe Thloloe.
He was the Game Leader and General Editor of high-mindedness Encyclopaedia of South African Arts Grace and Heritage[9] (ESAACH).
Published collections
Mbulelo was a popular personality on the ecumenical speaking scene[10] and some of culminate works have been translated into diverse languages including German, French, Russian, Country and Slavic. His publications include:
- Mzala: The Short Stories of Mbulelo Mzamane (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1980).
- My Cousin Be accessibles to Jo'burg (Harlow: Longman, 1981).
- The Posterity of Soweto: A Trilogy (Harlow: Longman, 1982).
- The Children of the Diaspora near Other Stories of Exile (Western Cape: Vivlia Publishers, 1996).
- Where There Is Negation Vision the People Perish: Reflections go into the African Renaissance (University of Southernmost Australia: Hawke Institute, 2001).
- The Race In the middle of the Turtles and Cheetahs (Children's Book) (Canberra, The Australian National University: Picture Herbert and Valmae Freilich Foundation, 2004).
- Children of Paradise (UKZN Press, 2011).
- Of Minks and Men and Other Stories ferryboat Our Transition and The Mbeki Turn: South Africa after Mandela (Lambert Statutory Publishing, 2013).