Professor Serote to be honoured again for his poetic fire

ENOCK SHISHENGEProfessor Mongane Wally Serote was inaugurated as a South African poet laureate in 2018, following in the footsteps of other veteran poets, Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mazisi Kunene. Serote is a jewel of poetry in South Africa. He was an anti-apartheid activist since the 1960s, espousing the miserable conditions of the oppressed through the prism of Black Consciousness. After spells of detention and banning orders, he left South Africa in 1974 and studied at the University of Columbia where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree. As an ANC activist, he underwent military…