| LC control no. | n 82106660 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9369.3.S45 |
| Personal name heading | Serote, Mongane Wally, 1944- |
| Variant(s) | Serote, Mongane, 1944- Serote, Wally, 1944- |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) Botswana London (England) South Africa |
| Birth date | 1944 |
| Place of birth | Sophiatown (Johannesburg, South Africa) |
| Field of activity | Authorship Arts |
| Affiliation | Freedom Park (Agency : South Africa) Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Chief executive officers |
| Found in | His Tsetlo, 1974. His To every birth its blood, c1981: t.p. (Mongane Serote) Unedited, interview with Wally Serote, 2001: videodisc label (Wally Serote) The Presidency, Republic of South Africa WWW site, viewed Aug. 15, 2016: award web page (The Order of Ikhamanga in Silver awarded to Mongane Wally Serote for excellent contributions to literature with emphasis on poetry; born in Sophiatown north of Johannesburg in 1944; attended school in Alexandra; worked as a journalist after school; more widely know as "Wally"; one of South Africa's pre-eminent poets and writers; he developed an interest in Black Consciousness (BC); in 1969 arrested and detained in South Africa; 1973, published his first book in poetry; the following year he travelled to Columbia University where he obtained a master's degree in Fine Arts; after his degree in 1979 he returned to Africa, living in self-imposed exile in Botswana; in 1986 he relocated to London and began working for the ANC's [African National Congress], Department of Arts and Culture; returned to South Africa in 1990; appointed to oversee the construction of Freedom Park, a national monument; currently chief executive officer of the Freedom Park Trust) |
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