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    Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to...
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  • Look up Brutus or brutus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Brutus is a Latin surname, which usually refers to Marcus Junius Brutus (85–42 BC), one of...
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    Colony. Peter Abrahams, writer Tyrone Appollis, academic Willie Bester Dennis Brutus, journalist, poet, activist Peter Clarke Phillippa Yaa de Villiers,...
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  • founded in New York City in 1987 by Emile de Antonio, Dore Ashton, Dennis Brutus, John Gerassi, Abbie Hoffman, William Kunstler, C. Clark Kissinger,...
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    Colony. Peter Abrahams, writer Tyrone Appollis, academic Willie Bester Dennis Brutus, journalist, poet, activist Peter Clarke Phillippa Yaa de Villiers,...
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  • DeQuincey, Wyndham Lewis, Tom Wayman, Kristjana Gunnars, Mavis Gallant, Dennis Brutus and Wilfred Watson. "My continuing interest," Lent says, "is the relationship...
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    1780 until 1793 for his anti-colonial activities against the Dutch. Dennis Brutus, former activist and poet Patrick Chamusso, former activist of the African...
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  • Santo Léopold Sédar Senghor Birago Diop David Diop Syl Cheney-Coker Dennis Brutus Mazisi Kunene Sipho Sepamla Keorapetse Kgositsile Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali...
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  • went to school in Port Elizabeth, where he was taught by the writer Dennis Brutus. After school he studied at the University College of the Western Cape...
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  • Jared Angira - Peter Anyang' Nyong'o - Kofi Awoonor - Kwesi Brew - Dennis Brutus - Siraman Cissoko - J. P. Clark - José Craveirinha - Viriato da Cruz...
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  • Bhekimpi Dlamini, 4th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 1999) November 28 – Dennis Brutus, South African poet and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2009) November 30...
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  • 1962), Dennis Brutus (Sirens, Knuckles, Boots, 1963), Kofi Awoonor and Lenrie Peters, as well as translations of francophone poetry. Brutus was chosen...
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  • end". News24. Retrieved 2023-12-09. "Poet, Anti-Apartheid Activist Dennis Brutus Dies". NPR. December 28, 2009. Retrieved December 8, 2023. Staff (2001-01-02)...
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    participation in the Olympics began with Dennis Brutus, a South African political activist. In 1961, Brutus found the South African Sports Association...
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    Breytenbach (1939–2024) André Brink (1935–2015) Babette Brown (1931–2019) Dennis Brutus (1924–2009) Guy Butler (1918–2001) Roy Campbell (1901–1957) Cecile Cilliers...
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    Roy Blumenthal Herman Charles Bosman Breyten Breytenbach André Brink Dennis Brutus Guy Butler Roy Campbell Charl Cilliers Johnny Clegg Jack Cope Jeremy...
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  • salary. Here she met such noted writers as Lewis Nkosi, Can Themba, and Dennis Brutus, and experimented with her own independent writing. But her life-changing...
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    Voznesensky Soviet Union Paal Brekke (Norway) Wole Soyinka  Nigeria Dennis Brutus (South Africa) Tawfiq al-Hakim  Egypt Mohammed Dib (Algeria) Czesław...
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    African Sports Association, a non-racial body set up in South Africa by Dennis Brutus. In the same year, he presented a letter to the International Olympic...
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    returned to Rome. Brutus, Porcia's first cousin, divorced his wife Claudia and married Porcia in 45 BC. The marriage was scandalous as Brutus did not state...
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  • (d. 2016) 1923 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (d. 1981) 1924 – Dennis Brutus, South African journalist, poet, and academic (d. 2009) 1924 – Johanna...
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    Alexander (1983) Ralph W. Ellison (1984) Raymond R. Patterson (1986) Dennis Brutus (1987) Alice Walker (1988) Amiri Baraka (1989) Alice Childress (1990)...
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  • (Ghana) Fadhy Mtanga (Tanzania) Breyten Breytenbach (South Africa) Dennis Brutus (South Africa) Abena Busia (Ghana) John Pepper Clark (Nigeria) José...
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  • 1994) 8 September – Hazel Brooks, actress (d. 2002) 28 November – Dennis Brutus, poet and anti-apartheid activist. (d. 2009) 5 December – Robert Sobukwe...
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    sympathizers. Kōbō Abe, Japanese writer Tom Bottomore, British sociologist Dennis Brutus, South African writer Boris Christoff, Bulgarian opera singer Julio...
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  • collaborated closely with South African poet and global justice activist Dennis Brutus in building Pittsburgh participation in World Social Forums taking place...
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  • Mary Brunton (1778–1818, Scotland, f) Steven Brust (born 1955, US, f) Dennis Brutus (1924–2009, S Africa, nf/p) Francis Bryan (c. 1490–1550, England, p/nf)...
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    World, the National Negro Congress, and the files of the South African Dennis Brutus Defense Committee (restricted). It also includes the papers of Lawrence...
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  • 44 Amadi, Elechi 1969 The Great Ponds. 45 Munonye, John 1969 Obi. 46 Brutus, Dennis 1968 Letters to Martha: and other poems from a South African prison...
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  • Baraka, James Berry, Valerie Bloom, Jean Binta Breeze, Yvonne Brewster, Dennis Brutus, Robert Chrisman, Merle Collins, Carolyn Cooper, Fred D'Aguiar, Melvin...
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