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Keorapetse William Kgositsile OIS (19 September 1938 – 3 January 2018), also known by his pen name Bra Willie, was a South African Tswana poet, journalist and political activist. An influential member of the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s, he was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006. [1]
Keorapetse Kgositsile (born September 19, 1938, Johannesburg, South Africa—died January 3, 2018, Johannesburg) was a South African poet and essayist whose writings focus on Pan-African liberation as the fruit of informed heroism and compassionate humanism.
Jan 3, 2018 · Synopsis: Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress. Title: Professor. First Name: Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High School.
Jan 16, 2018 · Keorapetse Kgositsile, a South African poet whose writing and activism helped bridge his country’s freedom struggle with the Black Arts Movement in the United States, died on Jan. 3 in...
Jan 5, 2018 · Memories of Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2017), or Bra Willie, as he was affectionately known, are of a poet who always had a smile on his face, who exuded gentleness, and was soft-spoken. He...
Born in Johannesburg, South African poet and editor Keorapetse Kgositsile left his homeland in 1961 because of the pressures of apartheid. He earned an MFA at Columbia University, and his publications include This Way I Salute You (2004), If I Could Sing: Selected Poems (2002), and The Present Is a…
Kgositsile was Vice President of the Congress of South African Writers in the early 1990s and also founded the Black Arts Theatre in Harlem. In 2006, he was appointed the second Poet Laureate of South Africa.
