Mazisi kunene biography of christopher columbus

  • Nationality: South African.
  • Kunene was born on May 12, 1930, in Durban — a South African province now called KwaZulu-Natal.
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    Chapter 3. Revolt

    ‘We must return to the point from which we started. Diversion fryst vatten not a useful ploy unless it is närd by reversion: not a return to the longing for origins, to some immutable state of Being, but a return to the point of entanglement, from which we were forcefully turned away; that is where we must ultimately put to work the forces of creolization, or perish.’1

    1In his monumental prose poem, Return to My Native Land, Aimé Césaire opens with a scene of aporetic loss.

    ‘At the end of the small hours delicately sprouting handles for the market: the West Indies, hungry, hail-marked with smallpox, blown to bits by alcohol, the West Indies shipwrecked in the mud of this bay, wickedly shipwrecked in the dust of this town.’2

    2The opening passages go on to describe the island of Martinique as a place of desolation and geographic decadence, where human life has been debased by three centuries of colonial rule. Emphasising the structuring force of loss, com

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    1st International Conference of Negro Writers and Artists:  Paris, Sorbonne, 19th-22nd September 1956:  Full Account (Paris: [Society of African Culture]:  1956).  Published as a special issue of Presence Africaine No. 8-10 (1956).  Includes remarks to the Congress by Mississippi-born author Richard Wright as well as a significant number of African speakers.  Call Number:  PS3545 R815 T73 1956.

    The African Mission of the White Fathers.  Special Collections has edition 9:12 (1962).  Catholic missions in Africa.  From the Cleveland/Wilson Collection.  Call Number:  BV3500 A1.

    William T. Alexander.  History of the Colored Race in America:  Containing also Their Ancient and Modern Life in Africa, Modes of Living, Employments, Customs, Habits, Social Life, Etc., the Origin and Development of Slavery in the Old World, and Its Introduction on the American Continent; the Slave Trade, Slavery, And I

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    Kunene, (Raymond) Mazisi

    Nationality: South African. Born: Mazisi ka Mdabuli Kunene, in Durban, Natal, 12 May 1930. Education: Natal University, B.A. (honors) in Zulu and history, M.A. in Zulu Poetry; attended School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1959. Family: Married Mabowe Mathabo in 1973; four children. Career: Head of department of African Studies, University College of Roma, Lesotho; director of education for South African United Front; member of Anti-Apartheid and Boycott movement in Britain, 1959–68; chief representative, African National Congress in Europe and United States, 1962, and director of finance, 1972; visiting professor of African literature, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; head of African Studies, University of Iowa; associate professor, then professor of African literature and languages, University of California, Los Angeles. Member, Faculty of Humanities, University of Natal, Durban. Has held positions in the Pan-African Youth

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