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SEROTE, Mongane Wally : Yakhai'inkomo. Poems

Renoster Books, Johannesburg, 1972

A fine copy in the original thin card pictorial wrappers as issued. INSCRIBED by Lionel Abrahams...Lionel Abrahams (11 April 1928 – 31 May 2004)[1] was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher. He was born in Johannesburg, where he lived his entire life.[2] He was born with cerebral palsy and had to use a wheelchair until 11 years of age.[1] Best known for his poetry, he was mentored by Herman Charles Bosman,[1] and he and later edited seven volumes of Bosman's posthumously published works.[3] Abrahams went on to become one of the most influential figures in South African literature in his own right,[4][5] publishing numerous poems, essays, and two novels. Through Renoster Books, which he started in 1956, he published works by Oswald Mtshali and Mongane Wally Serote heralding the emergence of black poetry during the apartheid era

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