Mongane Wally Serote has been a distinguished voice in South African letters since the publication of Yakhal’inkomo in 1972 and Tsetlo, published a year or so later. Serote’s vision and voice always explores the challenge for a total humanity from the imposition of state. His vision and voice have always been clear and committed as evidenced by his book, The Night Keeps Winking, a work that crystalises the necessity of South Africans to organise and take whatever steps necessary to sever the links apartheid had with its machinery to deny the majority its right to govern.
Now in this latest epic, Listen, the poet directs his creative genius to a call and challenge to his African brothers and sisters. This opus is committed and clear in its call and challenge to the denizens of the continent that spawned him.
This poet knows and reiterates the times that people oppressed in South Africa resisted and overcame. And it challenges Africans to realise that the ‘economy’ of this world order is something that they must understand and challenge with footsteps toward a human tomorrow.
This work is eloquent and lyrical in its committed visionary expanse. Listen should be required reading for all those who favour humanity on this planet.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
Now in this latest epic, Listen, the poet directs his creative genius to a call and challenge to his African brothers and sisters. This opus is committed and clear in its call and challenge to the denizens of the continent that spawned him.
This poet knows and reiterates the times that people oppressed in South Africa resisted and overcame. And it challenges Africans to realise that the ‘economy’ of this world order is something that they must understand and challenge with footsteps toward a human tomorrow.
This work is eloquent and lyrical in its committed visionary expanse. Listen should be required reading for all those who favour humanity on this planet.
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
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