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    Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer and journalist, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions...
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  • from 2001 to 2008 Kwanele Nkosi, character in the post-apocalyptic young adult horror novel The Dead by Charlie Higson Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), South African...
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    Black; the culture, the colour, dreams, ambitions, hopes and struggles. Lewis Nkosi described DRUM's young writers as "the new African[s] cut adrift from...
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  • by: Lionel Rogosin, Lionel Rogosin Films Screenplay: Lionel Rogosin, Lewis Nkosi, William 'Bloke' Modisane Cinematography: Ernst Artaria, Emil Knebel...
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    Maimane, Todd Matshikiza, Nat Nakasa, Casey Motsisi, Dugmore Boetie, and Lewis Nkosi. Rebuilt as a whites-only area under the name of Triomf ("Triumph") in...
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  • University of Cape Town, writer Sandile Ngcobo, former chief justice Lewis Nkosi, South African writer Mxolisi Nxasana, former National Prosecuting Authority...
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  • Silver 2008 Literature (poetry) Lauretta Ngcobo Silver 2008 Literature Lewis Nkosi Silver 2008 Literature Zakes Mokae Silver 2008 Performing arts Ronnie...
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    Robert Nicholson (born 1945) J.J. Ncongwane (born 1961) Lisa de Nikolits Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) Arthur Nortje (1942–1970) Sibusiso Nyembezi (1919–2000) Joy...
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  • Petals of Blood (1977), Weep Not, Child (1964), Wizard of the Crow (2006) Lewis Nkosi (South Africa): Mandela's Ego (2006), Mating Birds (1986), Underground...
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  • her own column and a steady salary. Here she met such noted writers as Lewis Nkosi, Can Themba, and Dennis Brutus, and experimented with her own independent...
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  • Kofi Awoonor; from South Africa: Ezekiel Mphahlele, Bloke Modisane, Lewis Nkosi, Dennis Brutus, Arthur Maimane; from East Africa Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (at...
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  • Matshikiza, Stan Motjuwadi and Casey Motsisi. They were later joined by Lewis Nkosi and Nat Nakasa. This group lived by the dictum: "Live fast, die young...
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    Afrikaanse literatuur, and Dekker's Afrikaanse Literatuurgeskiedenis. Lewis Nkosi (cf. Cullhed, 2006: 18) claims that "in South Africa there exists an...
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  • (born 1912) September 5 Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (born 1905) Lewis Nkosi, South African writer (born 1936) September 7 – Barbara Holland, American...
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  • Mda (born 1948) Kirsten Miller (living) Lauretta Ngcobo (1931–2015) Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010) Alan Paton (1903–1988) Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) Sipho...
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    the 1950s, along with Henry Nxumalo, Can Themba, Es'kia Mphahlele and Lewis Nkosi. Modisane was also the jazz critic at Drum's sister publication, the...
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  • of support for the Treason Trial leaders into the opening anthem". As Lewis Nkosi wrote: "The resounding welcome accorded to the musical at Wits University...
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  • "Black Irony: Modernism, Mimicry, and African America in the Drama of Lewis Nkosi". Research in African Literature. 54 (1): 1–17. 2023. doi:10.2979/ral...
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  • Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ (born 1970s), Kenya Rebeka Njau (born 1932), Kenya Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010), South Africa Jérôme Nouhouaï (living), Benin María Nsué...
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  • Eikaas, 89, Norwegian artist. Elizabeth Jenkins, 104, English author. Lewis Nkosi, 73, South African writer. Homi Sethna, 86, Indian nuclear scientist...
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  • Gold Coast/Ghana, nf) Innocent Masina Nkhonyo (born 1987, Malawi, f/p) Lewis Nkosi (1936–2010, S Africa, p/f/nf) Gamal Nkrumah (born 1959, Ghana/Egypt,...
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  • Roberta Cantow Shorts Come Back Africa Lionel Rogosin Lionel Rogosin, Lewis Nkosi, William Modisane Retrospective Coming of Age Josh Hanig Documentary...
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    Wole Soyinka, John Pepper Clark, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Bloke Modisane, Lewis Nkosi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (then known as James Ngugi), Ezekiel Mphahlele, Robert...
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    Fugard, Lindsay Barrett, Wole Soyinka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, John P. Clark, Lewis Nkosi, Barry Reckord, John Nagenda, Ivan Van Sertima, Langston Hughes, Frank...
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  • Tsonga Ronnie Govender English André Brink English Peter Abrahams English Lewis Nkosi English Don Mattera English Karel Schoeman Afrikaans 2005 Es’kia Mphahlele...
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  • post-colonial writing." Under the heading "Colonialism and Silence" Lewis Nkosi's novel Mating Birds (1986) is provided as an example whereby silence...
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  • documentary films made by David Basckin and Zoë Molver about writers including Lewis Nkosi, Marguerite Poland and poets Douglas Livingstone and Roy Campbell. These...
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  • Camara Laye, Aké Loba, Todd Matshikiza, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Abioseh Nicol, Lewis Nkosi, Onuora Nzekwu, Grace Ogot, Ferdinand Oyono, Lenrie Peters, Jean Pliya...
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  • Argentine writer (died 2018) December 5 James Lee Burke, American writer Lewis Nkosi, Zulu writer (died 2010) December 11 – Ingvar Moe, Norwegian poet, novelist...
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    " Taking the title from an optimistic phrase used by a character in Lewis Nkosi's story "Under the Shadow of the Guns", the editors aimed to publish a...
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