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Mazisi Kunene Road works, in both English and Formerly King George V and isiZulu, during this time. His South Ridge roads three epics, Emperor Activist intellectual the Great, 1979; Anthem of the POET, accademic and Decade, 1981; and The founder of the anti- Ancestors and the Sacred movement in Britain, Mazisi As part of a series on the heroes Mountain, 1982, were Raymond Kunene was born received with critical acclaim, in Durban on May 12, 1930, honoured in eThekwini’s new street establishing him as one of at McCord’s Hospital. Africa’s literary greats. His mother Eva Kunene and building names, Swazi Dlamini (née Ngcobo) was a teacher Macbeth and his father, Mdabuli Albert profiles Mazisi Kunene Kunene, a labourer. He was also famous for his He grew up at Amahlongwa Zulu version of Shakespear’s on the KwaZulu-Natal South After a brief stint in Lesotho, Literature at that campus, a Macbeth, known as Mabatha. Coast and attended primary Kunene travelled to Britain, post he held until his return After his return to South school there and later Kwa- planning to do his doctorate. to in 1992. Africa, Kunene lectured at the Hluzingcondo High. But events overtook that In 1993 Unesco made him until his After matriculating he ambition and he was drawn Africa’s poet laureate and he retirement. obtained a teaching into liberation politics, was named South Africa’s He died from cancer on certificate at Maphumulo becoming the ANC’s chief Poet Laureate in March 2005. August 11, 2006, and is Teachers’ Training College. representative in the UK and Inspired by the history of survived by his wife Mathabo He began writing at an early Western Europe in 1964. his people, especially their Kunene and his four children. age and was published in struggle for freedom and As a tribute to her husband newspapers and magazines Top post democracy against a brutal and his work, Mathabo and from the age of11. system of colonialism and her family have transformed In 1956 he won the Bantu He served in that capacity apartheid, Kunene was MAZISI KUNENE: A freedom fighter with a poet’s soul their home into a museum in Literary Competition Award for a number of years before deeply rooted in the oral his honour. and earned a Masters degree resuming his studies in the traditions and the indigenous cosmopolitan and national, African literary and cultural It includes many of in Arts from the University of US, where he took up a post literature of the Nguni and he was esteemed for his craft ethos. Kunene’s masterpieces. Natal in 1959 for a paper at the University of California, Sotho speakers of Southern by his contemporaries. The decades of 1980s and [email protected] entitled “An Analytical Survey Los Angeles in 1973. He Africa. He was also an 1990s were probably Kunene’s Sources: Speech by Pallo of Zulu Poetry, Both eventually became Professor An African writer- uncompromising pan- most prolific. Jordan; Mazisi Kunene Traditional and Modern”. of African Languages and intellectual who was both Africanist, espousing an He produced eight major Foundation